I am once again imploring you NOT TO FUCK WITH SCROLLBARS.
This article didn’t test the accessibility (the examples fail multiple SCs) and also seems to forget Firefox exists.
https://blog.master.dev/custom-scrollbar-component-in-2026/
At least the comments …

Custom Scrollbar Component In 2026 – Master.dev Blog
Thanks to some very modern CSS, we can visually replicate the logic of scrollbars. Then make them actually functional.

After my previous ramblings about OpenSuse, it's fair to note not all is that bad, as some of the ashes are swept away:
#kalpa #opensuse

The void can have a little nothing, as a treat!

:succ:

@… added some benchmarks: https://chrome.dev/css-selector-benchmark/?category=Shadow DOM
Reads to me as Light > Shadow > Light/Sha…

from my link log —
Speeding up gearhash for FastCDC content-defined chunking on ARM64 NEON.
https://sam.dev/blog/gearhash-on-arm64
saved 2026-09-15 https://

Speeding up gearhash on ARM64 (2× faster) — sam reis
The gearhash crate has gained a NEON backend for improved performance. How a direct port started out slower than scalar, and the dependency-chain work that fixed it.

Ryssland söker vägar rakt in i pojkrummet – via träningsklipp, manlighetsideal och influencers. Om Clavicular, looksmaxxing, manosfären och Kremls påverkan.
https://carlheath.se/ryssland-tar-sig-in-i-pojkrummet-vad-clavicu…

Ryssland tar sig in i pojkrummet - vad Clavicular lär oss om Kreml och den toxiska maskuliniteten
”Nästa resa blir Ryssland, om visumet går igenom.” En amerikansk tjugoåring skrev inlägget på X, det som förr hette Twitter, den 12 juli i år. På bara tre dagar hade det setts över tre miljoner gånger.

I have shuffled up Speedlify 2 to #25 - was 18 but others popped ahead of me since. My site is the only Cloudflare site in the top 50 now! i must be doing something right!
https://www.speedlify.dev

📦 #plumpcli is a terminal client for #Plumb (https://plumbphp.dev), which mechanically scores

jdk: Java SE Dev Kit dependencies (1.6.0.7)
A network of class dependencies within the JDK (Java SE Development Kit) 1.6.0.7 framework. Nodes represent classes and a directed edge indicates a dependency of one class on another.
This network has 6434 nodes and 150985 edges.
Tags: Technological, Software, Unweighted, Multigraph
https://

Really good and detailed breakdown of the memory implications of associative arrays in PHP. Yet another reason to "Never* use arrays." (Use classes, and convert as quickly as you can.)
https://dev.to/nazar-boyko/i-added-one-key-to-a-php-array…

I Added One Key to a PHP Array. It Cost 25 MB of Memory
I was recently refactoring some legacy PHP code and noticed that the same data array was being used...

from my link log —
gefs: a good enough filesystem for Plan 9.
https://orib.dev/gefs.html
saved 2023-04-29 https://dotat.at/:/ZGRFE.html

Das Buch der Woche der @… Bibliothek:
PC Power '97 – 1111 Profi-Tips zu: Hardware, Windows 95, Internet
Wer vergessen hat wie man MSCDEX richtig konfiguriert, wird auf Seite 593 fündig. Im Teil "Internet-Tricks" lernt man wie Netscape Navigator 2.0 mit nur 8 MB RAM genutzt werden kann. Der Eintrag "IRC-Clients installieren und konfiguriere…

Das Buch der Woche der @… Bibliothek:
PC Power '97 – 1111 Profi-Tips zu: Hardware, Windows 95, Internet
Wer vergessen hat wie man MSCDEX richtig konfiguriert, wird auf Seite 593 fündig. Im Teil "Internet-Tricks" lernt man wie Netscape Navigator 2.0 mit nur 8 MB RAM genutzt werden kann. Der Eintrag "IRC-Clients installieren und konfiguriere…

YouTube and X Have Become ‘Gateways’ to Nudify Apps
A new study found that social media platforms are referring people to sites where they can create nonconsensual, sexually explicit deepfakes for as little as $1 an image.

YouTube and X Have Become ‘Gateways’ to Nudify Apps
A new study found that social media platforms are referring people to sites where they can create nonconsensual, sexually explicit deepfakes for as little as $1 an image.

This 352.8 kB react component with 8.1M million weekly downloads can go away when CSS `field-sizing` browser support expands.
https://npmx.dev/package/react-textarea-autosize

Hinn med att leva under tiden. Läs min resekrönika från krigets Kyjiv häromveckan, nu publicerad i Kungsliga Krigsvetenskapsakademiens blogg.
https://kkrva.se/hinn-med-att-leva-under-tiden/

Hinn med att leva under tiden
Det är början av juli och glaset framför mig immar. Uteserveringen fylls långsamt medan solen släpper sitt grepp om Kyjiv, och för första gången på hela dagen går det att andas. Staden har legat under samma hetta som resten av Europa, den kraftigaste som kontinenten uppmätt, dagar då termometern krupit mot trettiosju grader och alla

🔒 Every tool is read-only; the single live path passes URLs and redirects through an SSRF guard — public hosts only, ports 80/443, byte-capped body, no JS execution
📄 MIT licensed, every screen credits and links its source
🌐 https://github.com/Nutlope/inspo

Deploying apps on the web has always been a major turn off for me - it feels like being gifted a litter of puppies.
Assorted pain reduction services exist with tamagotchi rental economics.
And then I discovered miren.dev.
I have absolutely no association with them. I am just genuinely in awe.

HTML over WebSockets: real-time SPAs with barely any JavaScript
Building a SPA (Single-page Application) is a complex puzzle: a JavaScript framework that draws the view, an API serving JSON, and 2 independent codebases forced to understand each other through contracts. It is an accepted, professionalized scenario. […]
— by @…
🧑‍💻

@… I think the supported values for the Prometheus exposition format is defined as anything Go's ParseFloat() supports, which includes "2.991904e 06".
https://pkg.go.dev/strconv#ParseFloat

Getting to the CRUX of it.
The last couple of days I've been hanging out in Crux Linux and I really enjoyed doing just that. Reason why I did a write-up and how-to about my exploration into this source based distro.
#crux #cruxlinux

from my link log —
There are only twelve 4x4 sudoku grids and 85632 puzzles.
https://baldino.dev/blog/there-are-only-twelve-4x4-sudokus/
saved 2026-09-14

There are only twelve 4x4 sudokus - and a cool trick for finding minimal subsets
Francesco Baldino's personal web page

➡️ curl > /dev/sda
#bookmarks

Watch as the dev & community team plays the NEW Halo: Campaign Evolved... and new 4-player co-op!
(Sooo beautiful!)
▶️ Co-Op, Remix, & LASO Livestream | Halo: Campaign Evolved
https://youtube.com/live/s5Ikef1DvY0?si=WYndgwvdDJguS0Gj

So far I haven't really warmed up to the Litrpg genre. But I just finished the audio book version of "The Wandering Inn" and have to say I enjoyed it quite a bit.
https://wanderinginn.com/

So far I haven't really warmed up to the Litrpg genre. But I just finished the audio book version of "The Wandering Inn" and have to say I enjoyed it quite a bit.
https://wanderinginn.com/

I'm working with an agency (https://transformstudios.com), and we're looking for a Sr. .NET dev with solid Azure DevSecOps experience for a long term contract.
Needs to definitely be Senior level with min 20 hr per week availability starting August.
Anyone got a recommendation?

My employer's campaign to _prevent me from #working_ continues. Our owning overlords changed over a year ago and our new corporate IT function.... is draconian.
First our Windows PCs were reimaged with a restrictive corporate W11 image.
Could still get stuff done because we had access controlled "dev" accounts. Though now I would just spend 25m each day entering in my dev cred…

Hvis du, som jeg, gerne vil have et RSS-feed uden reels fra DR Indland, så giv det her et skud. Det ser ud til at virke og opdaterer hver halve time. https://dr-indland-filter.cloudflare-patio687.workers.dev/

ponytail
https://ponytail.dev/

jdk: Java SE Dev Kit dependencies (1.6.0.7)
A network of class dependencies within the JDK (Java SE Development Kit) 1.6.0.7 framework. Nodes represent classes and a directed edge indicates a dependency of one class on another.
This network has 6434 nodes and 150985 edges.
Tags: Technological, Software, Unweighted, Multigraph
https://

LLMs just shouldn’t be involved with many things, I find for technical deep dive docs it’s actually pretty great when given style guidance and produce much better docs that I would.
I’ve been experimenting with this and in my configuration manager have a deep code map / guided walk through that helps orientate people to the code. It’s not perfect but way better than I could make it.
Have some SVG color scheme issues otherwise really like this.

Hello Fediverse - I'm looking to find myself additional libre/FOSS/open source Sysadmin, DevOps, & Dev contract work while our (with @…) new project, https://Magnificent.nz, is ra…

Alltägliches mal ganz anders' #FotoVorschlag
Spielgeräte mit der Lochkamera fotografiert.
https://photo.dresden.network/p/der_raddler/822540474847173275…

der_raddler (@der_raddler@photo.dresden.network)
Jetzt habe ich doch glatt den gestrigen #WorldPinholeDay verpasst! 🤦 Dann reiche ich heute schnell noch passende Bilder nach! ~Ghosts on the playground~ 📷: #Lomography #dianamultipinhole 🎞️: #imago320 by Ars-imago international Dev. & Scan: Foto Görner #pinhole #pinholephotography #analog #analogphotography #longexposure #filmphotography #filmisnotdead #stillshootfilm #pinholeday #longexposure

Good article on a Gen Digital-discovered #phishing campaign. More reason to block *.workers.dev (Cloudflare) as it is a key link in this campaign’s kill chain #cybersecurity
https://www.gendigital.com/blog/insights/research/the-phishing-link-that-died-on-purpose

🌐 https://gummibeer.dev/blog/2026/logarithmic-auto-scaling-laravel-horizon

Making good progress on this GLPI plugin for tracking devices on a floorplan.
Started with just refreshing one of their existing plugins, but after about the 10th SQL injection vulnerability I ran across in their horrendous code, I just opted to say frak it and created my own plugin from scratch.
Don't know if I'll actually release it to the public or if anyone else would even find it useful, but I think it'll really help my team's workflow at the very least.
(Before and af…

Is this a thing now? Today I received a spam email that pretended to be an announcement of a new dev tool. The email contained an install command in the style of `curl example.com/install | sh`. I didn't investigate further, but this seems like a perfect malware vector. Maybe we shouldn't have normalized piping online scripts to a shell for software installation?

from my link log —
Oilpan: high-performance garbage collection for C in V8.
https://v8.dev/blog/high-performance-cpp-gc
saved 2020-06-23 https://…

I'm surprised that after all this time there's still no way to make Linux maintain consistent /dev/whatever to physical storage device mappings. There are ALL KINDS of workarounds, like the /dev/disk/by-whatever tree and mounting with UUIDs, but nothing equivalent to what network devices have with `biosdevname`. Consequently, every time I boot my desktop, it's a toss-up if the boot drive will be /dev/nvme0 or /dev/nvme1. Purely cosmetic, but aggravating!

Trying an old nav pattern with `focusgroup` and `role` on the `<ul>` in Chrome 150 and getting unexpected results:
https://cdpn.io/aardrian/debug/myRpKpg
`focusgroup=menubar`:
• no roles change.
`role=menubar`:
• child `<li>`s lose role.
Both:
• child `&…

For those people interested in digital identity , wallets etc., Architecture and Reference Framework for the EU Digital Identity Wallet, version 3.0 has been released.
#EU

European Digital Identity
Architecture and Reference Framework (ARF) of the European Digital Identity Wallet: main narrative, annexes with normative high-level requirements, technical specifications, and discussion topics.

The ternary operator is all fun and games until you end up with a branch coverage drop without a line number for the culprit (because one of the branches is covered).
#dev #programming #JavaScript…

Oh, da gibt es noch was zu tun. Über 8000 Objekte der Berliner Denkmalliste stehen auf Wikidata, haben aber noch keine Verlinkung zu #OpenStreetMap ( #OSM ): https://

The Remaining Challenge Out Of Berkeley: my 10 cents of reflections on my recent interactions with the BSD's:
https://thesaigoneer.bearblog.dev/the-remaining-challenge-out-of-berkeley/

@… True. But wouldn't it be a good idea to have a contingency plan whether you self-host or use a commercial service? 😀

@… True. But wouldn't it be a good idea to have a contingency plan whether you self-host or use a commercial service? 😀

“Breathable SUMMER latex!”
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:w5pfavrjij2ax3ur34tvbkg2/post/3mpeejz4vos2o

æ.dev (@aendra.dev)
SkinTwo/Honour is constantly amusing with their marketing

När en streamingtjänst rekommenderar innehåll gör den ett redaktionellt val. Patrik Oksanen och Andreas Edevald visar hur HBO ger nytt liv åt gamla ryska konspirationsteorier om Estonia, trots att senare utredningar vederlagt dem.
https://www.aftonbladet.se/debatt/a/q6VRdm

HBO rekommenderar rysk konspiration
HBO rekommenderar rysk konspiration

Is it bad that I am planning to print 2D barcodes on all my JTAG dongles with their serial numbers, so I can just beep the dongle into an OpenOCD config rather than dealing with hand typing serial numbers?
(also I need more orbtraces and Digilent HSx's, I'm constantly pulling them off one dev setup to use on another)

from my link log —
Nehir: a scrolling tiling window manager for macOS.
https://github.com/apphane-dev/nehir
saved 2026-08-05 https://dotat.at/:/996…

GitHub - apphane-dev/nehir: Nehir — a tiling window manager for macOS
Nehir — a tiling window manager for macOS. Contribute to apphane-dev/nehir development by creating an account on GitHub.

@… I'm pretty happy with my self-hosted Vaultwarden instance.
https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden

@… I'm pretty happy with my self-hosted Vaultwarden instance.
https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden

JSON-LD Explained for Personal Websites
#SEO

from my link log —
Bitap: my favorite string matching algorithm.
https://jo3-l.dev/posts/bitap/
saved 2026-09-08 https://dotat.at/:/4CAJD.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lab-N7YjBio
New Project Zomboid Lore explanation video! Hopefully you'll like it; we spent quite a bit of time sifting through game files to extract out the various stories and newspaper clippings.
Also gave us an excuse to tear around Muldrough for a wh…

One more fun bit here: speedlify measures speedlify (and measured it before and after the move to speedlify2!)
https://www.speedlify.dev/site/www-speedlify-dev/

from my link log —
OpenSSH key structure guide.
https://sshref.dev/
saved 2026-08-08 https://dotat.at/:/TRVY9.html

One of the hidden powers of NixOS:
#nixos

Jag tänkte och skrev av mig en sväng i mera terapeutiskt syfte efter att ha lyssnat på Ekots Lördagsintervju och dagens AI-politiska dematt.
https://carlheath.se/da-ar-loppet-redan-kort-en-reflektion-efter-ekots-ai-debatt/

”Då är loppet redan kört” - en reflektion efter Ekots AI-debatt
”Om det nu skulle vara så, då är loppet redan kört.” Meningen kom från civilminister Erik Slottner, kristdemokrat och ansvarig för digitaliseringen, i morse i Ekots lördagsintervju…

@… Thank you for providing this service to the community for as long as you did ♥️

@… Thank you for providing this service to the community for as long as you did ♥️

🥳 New release: Test Monkey version 1.2.0
• 100% coverage? You get a trophy 🏆 (Instead of a useless table.)
https://codeberg.org/small-web/test-monkey#100-coverage
Test Monkey is a node:test custom reporter that’s also a monkey.
npm install --save-dev @sm…

Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose
#LLM

https://www.typescriptlang.org/ (built with Gatsby) is currently #4 (of 1538) on https://www.speedlify.dev
nice work

from my link log —
How to copy files to an Xteink X3 by making it pretend to be a printer.
https://nishantjosh.dev/blogs/how-to-build-a-fking-printer/
saved 2026-09-09

How to build a f**king printer · Nishant Joshi
If you're giving me e-paper, I'm going to make an e-printer.

Yet another #accessibility #overlay that introduces WCAG failures just by installing it.
Users might not be able to report an accessibility problem. Here, one field is unlabeled (4.1.2 / 1.3.1) and the other is labeled by its placeholder (1.4.3 / 3.3.2).
This one offered by Welcoming Web.

Glaset immar på en uteservering i Kyjiv. Bord dukas, någon skrattar. Några timmar senare briserar himlen. 74 missiler, 500 drönare, och 52 500 som sover på tunnelbanans perronger. Min senaste krönika från krigets Kyjiv.
https://carlheath.se/hinn-med-att-leva-under-tiden/

Hinn med att leva under tiden
Det är början av juli och glaset framför mig immar. Uteserveringen fylls långsamt medan solen släpper sitt grepp om Kyjiv, och för första gången på hela dagen går det att andas. Staden har legat under…

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/feliciaday/watchtheguild
Looks like Felicia Day is starting on a new movie to continue The Guild; they're doing a kickstarter and are live streaming on Twitch all day for it.

🎯 Typical use cases: 12factor app environment variables, isolated per-project dev environments, loading deployment secrets.
🌐 https://github.com/direnv/direnv

from my link log —
Don't Panic! Better, fewer, syntax errors for LR parsers.
https://soft-dev.org/pubs/html/diekmann_tratt__dont_panic/
saved 2020-07-07

strange.website has a field-data LCP of 345ms!? @… the speed of light is supposed to be an upper limit
https://www.speedlify.dev/site/strange-website/

The FreeBSD base install doc at the blog (https://thesaigoneer.bearblog.dev/freebsd-base-install-revisited/) and the Codeberg page (

from my link log —
Soppo: Golang with the features it's missing.
https://soppolang.dev/
saved 2026-08-04 https://dotat.at/:/4D8D2.html

Det går att kväva ett lands vetenskap utan en enda stor scen. Det räcker med rätt ord i ett regelverk. I Washington vill man låta politiker underkänna forskningsanslag innan de beviljas. Vetenskapen har inget "inrikes". Vem avgör vad vi tillåts veta?
https://carlheath.se/det-fria-vetandet

Det fria vetandets vinter
Det går att kväva ett lands vetenskapssamhälle utan att ställa till med en stor scen. Det räcker med rätt ord på rätt plats i ett regelverk. Just nu ligger ett sådant förslag på bordet i Washington…

@… the possum will have opinions about this when they get back from trashcation
but also https://www.11ty.dev/blog/awesome-possum/

Snart hemma i Göteborg efter att ha deltagit vid Ukrainas firande av frihetsdagen i Stockholm, i ett skyddsrum under Katarinaberget. En kväll på temat gemensamt totalförsvar. På tåget såg jag också Caolan Robertsons senaste gripande berättelse från Kramatorsk på den ukrainska fronten. Väl värd att se. Jag fångades av dessa två upplevelser och skrev några rader.

Frihet under jord
Luften är stilla och lite rå, tjugo meter under Katarinaberget, som i alla bergrum. Katarinabergets skyddsrum byggdes mellan 1952 och 1957 för att rymma tjugo tusen stockholmare den dag bomberna kom.

Xi Jinping talar om AI som en symfoni av internationellt samarbete. Men vem skriver partituret, vem sätter tempot och vem får spela solo? Om Kinas AI strategi, beroendet av amerikanska teknikbolag, Taiwans kiselsköld och vad Sverige och EU behöver göra.
https://carlheath.se/symfon…

Symfonin i Shanghai - om geopolitiska och ekonomiska perspektiv på AI
Ibland blir de geopolitiska förskjutningarna synliga i en enda bild. Den 17 juli klev Xi Jinping för första gången upp på scenen vid World Artificial Intelligence Conference i Shanghai.

from my link log —
Your Rust service isn't leaking: when do glibc / jemalloc / mimalloc call munmap()?
https://pranitha.dev/posts/rust-and-memory-allocators/
saved 2026-07-07

oracle’s web site is winning on the Big Tech Website Leaderboard https://www.speedlify.dev/group/big-tech/ but not for a good reason: the website is… uh… not working

from my link log —
Shard your locks: benchmarking 6 Golang cache designs.
https://strebkov.dev/posts/shard-your-locks/
saved 2026-06-27 https://

A Graveyard of Missed Opportunities
Finally finished my reflection on OpenSUSE, which I started on June 10th already. Better late than sorry 😆
https://thesaigoneer.bearblog.dev/a-graveyard-of-missed-opportunities/

from my link log —
Sans-IO: The secret to effective Rust for network services.
https://www.firezone.dev/blog/sans-io
saved 2024-07-04 https://dota…

sans-IO Pattern in Rust Networking Code | Firezone Blog
Learn how Firezone uses the sans-IO pattern to build testable, deterministic Rust networking code. A deep dive into our connlib design.

Google svarar, AI-agenter läser åt oss och bottarnas närvaro på internet har passerat människornas. Jag skriver jag om Google Zero och om vilket internet vi egentligen vill ha.
https://carlheath.se/svarsmaskinens-tid-nar-internet-blir-en-pl…

Svarsmaskinens tid - när internet blir en plats för maskiner och inte människor
Jag lyssnar på Nilay Patel, chefredaktör för The Verge, prata i deras podd och tänker att han har en olycklig talang för att få rätt. För ett par år sedan myntade han uttrycket Google Zero för den…

anyway it should be interesting to see this category fill in with data today https://www.speedlify.dev/group/builders/

from my link log —
Flix: a functional / logic programming language for the JVM.
https://flix.dev/
saved 2020-12-23 https://dotat.at/:/7PXN5.html

from my link log —
Don’t feed the thought leaders.
https://earthly.dev/blog/thought-leaders/
saved 2021-06-11 https://dotat.at/:/Q3CV1…

Don't Feed the Thought Leaders
In this article, the author shares their experience as an engineering manager and the challenges they faced when trying to reach alignment and prev...

A little sneak peek at some very big updates to `speedlify` (just kidding they’re live): https://www.speedlify.dev/
Decoupled measure step from rank so that it runs continuously & incrementally. Ranks sites on CWV field data and Axe violations.
This is the new home for the @…

from my link log —
A fast path for decoding fixed-length lists in Parquet.
https://www.morling.dev/blog/fast-path-for-fixed-length-lists-in-parquet/
saved 2026-07-28

A Fast Path for Fixed-Length Lists in Parquet
In its current form Apache Parquet isn’t a great fit for storing fixed-length lists, such as coordinates, RGB(A) colors, or—​an increasingly common case—​vector embeddings driving search and …

Idag sänds Ekots Lördagsintervju, valspecial om AI och demokratin, där jag medverkar. Jag reflekterar om samtalet, som rörde konkurrenskraft, existentiell risk, rättsstat och det offentliga samtalets spelregler.
Reflektion
https://carlheath.se/reflektion-efter-

Reflektion efter Ekots lördagsintervju - fyra röster om AI och demokratin
Igår förmiddag var jag med i inspelningen av Ekots Lördagsintervju som sändes idag, med ett valspecial om AI och demorkratin. Jag satt med hörlurar i studio 44 hos Sveriges Radio på Lindholmen i…

from my link log —
ARM64 popcount in Golang and assembler.
https://barakmich.dev/posts/popcnt-arm64-go-asm/
saved 2020-07-13 https://

from my link log —
The world needs Cliqz. The world needs more search engines.
https://www.0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-01/the-world-needs-cliqz-the-world-needs-more-search-engines.html
saved 2019-12-01

from my link log —
Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem: polyfills gone rogue.
https://marvinh.dev/blog/speeding-up-javascript-ecosystem-part-6/
saved 2023-09-21

Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem - Polyfills gone rogue
Many popular npm packages depend on 6-8x more packages than they need to. Most of these are unnecessary polyfills and it's one of the key reasons node_modules folders are so large. The eslint ecosystem seems to be most affected by this.

from my link log —
Don't Panic! Better, fewer, syntax errors for LR parsers.
https://soft-dev.org/pubs/html/diekmann_tratt__dont_panic/
saved 2020-07-07

from my link log —
Hardening Rust code for production.
https://corrode.dev/blog/hardening-rust/
saved 2026-07-22 https://dotat.at/:/TWY…

Hardening Rust Code For Production | corrode Rust Consulting
We talked about patterns for defensive programming in Rust before, in which implicit invariants that aren’t enforced by the compiler lead to utter misery. But being careful isn’t enough! Even valid code can fail at runtime in ways that are hard to pr…