Love the new fonts API!
Having first party support for this feels nice.

Spending tokens as a developer feels like spending mana as a mage in an RPG 🧙

If you have burnt through your pool this early in the month I would suggest you'll take a long rest 🔥⛺

Desktop version of linkedIn's profile page with text overflowing the profile image

Mobile version of the same profile with almost too much whitespace between the photo and name

It's not a bug, it's a redesign...

Am I the only one around here who notices more and more bugs in everyday software?

I know this one is a minor thing that I have cause countless times myself, but some days it feels like the internet is slowly falling appart.

Big evolutions in hardware often come with new ways of input.

This is **not** one of them, but the Surface Keyboard is still a really cool feature meta dropped in the public testing channel.

first person view of a meta quest 3 seeing a browser in the front with the user writing this very post and a virtual keyboard being tracked on the real table of the train below

Meta cooked 🧑‍🍳

i just got their newest experimental feature for the quest called surface keyboard.
It even works surprisingly well in travel mode on the train.

I whish I would have known about this git feature earlier...
Maybe you are one of the lucky 10.000 today xkcd.com/1053/

I loved that detour about double keyed caching
"How likely is it that a Web user in Zimbabwe, [...], would choose to download React or nine weights of Roboto thousands of times to avoid seeing personalized ads? And how patronizing is it for people in California to be making this decision for them?"

How does the new mechanic work?

It's been a while since I found a game so well done. The dialogs are hilarious the artwork beautiful and the controls simple yet challenging enough.

I hooked up my phone to play it on a big screen so additional props for having a UI scale setting and controller support!

With all the JS "modern" recipe websites throw at us they could at least include useful features like acquiring a wake lock so I don't have to touch my device mid cooking.

That's exactly why I started my own digital recipe collection.
rezepte.taranetz.com

Unfortunately this is in german, but recipes would be hard to translate since different regions also use different measuring devices.

Also neat if you work in different repos with different package managers:

alias st="if [[ -f pnpm-lock.yaml ]]; then pnpm start; elif [[ -f yarn.lock ]]; then yarn start; else npm start; fi"
This runs the start script depending on localy used package manager.

My new favorite alias:

alias gho="gh pr view >/dev/null 2>&1 && gh pr view -w || gh pr create --web"

If there already is a PR for your current branch, open it in the browser, if not, open the create view.
It even prompts you to push your branch to the remote in case you forgot.

This is not a typo:
npm isntall-clean is a valid alias for npm ci

Don't open an issue, it is intended behavior 🫣

Many software developers (myself included) dream of creating video games for a living.
Sounds like a fantasy?

Since video games are an art form, I guess what we really dream of is creating art all day. 👩‍🎨🖼️

Seems like a very human thing to me.

The Scope Creep A chilling tale of deliverables, deadlines and doomed decisions

I know Halloween is over, but here is something truly haunting for you
scope-creep.xyz

How do Signals feel coming back from react?

Are you talking about sli.dev 's code runners?

"... you have been put to work to make automation work. That's not how automation is supposed to work"
- @edzitron.com

We have started with prompt engineering.

Now we are context engineering.

Maybe we should just get better at actual engineering.

If you ever need to figure out what's going on in your system, check the /proc folder.

Aivars Kalvāns walked us through the proc filesystem and showed us where to find everything from the arguments a process was started with to its open network connections.

#CloudNativeDaysAustria

Finally a solution to the 💩 in 💩out issue all observability tools face.

@dominik.suess.wtf showed us how OTel Weaver can ensure different teams use the same names and data types for the same kind of data.
It uses metric defintions to generate code / docs / dashboards
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Another tool I need to check out: Sigstore - the Let's encrypt of supply chain security - as Stephan Kraft put it.

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How do you find issues that involve your service mesh's side car proxies?

You need to make them less transparent and include them in your traces.

Konrad Renner showed us how it's done at #CloudNativeDaysAustria

You might not need to build your own controller for custom resources.
Instead you could use KRO and its resource graph definition as @yveshwang.bsky.social showed us.

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Day 2 of #CloudNativeDaysAustria was kicked off by @lauratacho.com

She explained why DX still matters and how to communicate this to your management.

Pro tip: use the venn diagram from her presentation 😉

Today @t-sc.eu shared his learnings from karriere.at about how platform engineers can actually improve the experience for developers (especially of microservices) instead of just forcing them to learn yet another tool.

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Fun fact this XKCD is so old it came out before USB-C was a thing

@adrianamvillela.bsky.social and @joshleecreates.bsky.social showed us why OTEL didn't follow the pattern of xkcd.com/927/

Great talk! It always helps to understand where the purpose of one tool ends and others need to take over.

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Sarah Christoff gave us a nice refresher about solving deadlocks.

I wouldn't have considered the resources themselves to be part of a possible solution (by requiring certain procedures to update their state)

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It is eco friendly and able to avoid obstacles on its own.
The only downside is that you need to bring your own saddle. 🏇