Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

Remember, you are not alone

Love how the tea and coffee communities are both quite obsessed with very expensive gear and I'm over here trying to figure out the cheapest ways to get into both hobbies so that more people can engage in them without having to make serious financial commitments because at the end of the day it's about enjoying a tasty cup of hot caffeinated water and not about consumerism

The common french press is probably a better tea brewer than most dedicated teapots when it comes to quality loose leaf tea. The large leaves of specialty loose leaf tea expand a whole lot when steeped meaning they need a lot of space and the infusers of most teapots are way too small for that. You don't get such issues with french presses!

Honestly the french press has to be one of the most versatile tools for hot drink stuff. Like they're great at brewing both tea and coffee AND you can foam milk really nicely with them too! And they're typically very cheap and available in almost any store that sells kitchen supplies!

I want to meet the person who decided to add a Windows notification for when you haven’t had notifications for an app for a while and so it notifies you that you might want to turn notifications off. Wild

“Why GUIs are built at least 2.5 times | Patricia Aas”

https://patricia.no/2025/05/30/why_lean_software_dev_is_wrong.html

> It isn’t typing speed that constrains developers either. We are constantly making custom work in a context, doing it well requires us to deeply understand our context.

Some recent fun protest stickers

#AmsterdamPublicComment #AmsterdamGraffiti #AmsterdamStickerArt #freepalestine #justicenow

This is easily the best thing I’ve read in a while, books included.

“Toolmen | A Working Library”

https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/toolmen

> Engaging with AI as a technology is to play the fool—it’s to observe the reflective surface of the thing without taking note of the way it sends roots deep down into the ground

Truth.

Coffee gets converted into a dessert to become tiramisu, only then for Starbucks to covert tiramisu back into "coffee"

Increasingly believing that every real-world business application, whether SaaS or regular software or weird databases or whatever else, ultimately just boils down to being one or more spreadsheets with a somewhat-tailored UI on top

"If, for any reason, developers need persistent storage (e.g., when building a web app that relies on critical data that isn't persisted anywhere else), they can do so by using the navigator.storage.persist() method of the Storage API.

In Firefox, when a site chooses to use persistent storage, the user is notified with a UI popup that their permission is requested.

Safari and most Chromium-based browsers, such as Chrome or Edge, automatically approve or deny the request based on the user's history of interaction with the site and do not show any prompts to the user."

Over the past week or so, I've been hacking away at a fun little project. Paperback, my second shot at a cross-platform ebook and document reader. Quinread, the one I wrote while in high school was in Python and didn't use great coding practices, and all the other existing solutions seem unmaintained or don't behave how I want, so in typical me fashion, I'm writing my own. It's written in C++ with wxWidgets, so it'll hopefully be cross-platform, although I've currently only tested on Windows. It's entirely open source, and under the MIT license. I can't make any promises about this project other than to say that I genuinely enjoy working on it and don't see any reason to stop, but it both starts up and loads giant documents incredibly fast. https://github.com/trypsynth/Paperback/

Direct File is now open source. Finally.

A short, personal post about why: https://chrisgiven.com/2025/05/direct-file-on-github/

Massive kudos to the Direct File team for pulling this off and showing their commitment to transparency and earning trust.

@gsuberland
Samsung used to have a funny Finnish translation for their dead pixel warranty.
They guaranteed at least five dead pixels, not at most.