Reading list
I'm using raindrop.io to save interesting posts, that I want to read later. Here are the most recent ones:
Improving site performance by shipping more CSS - The GitHub Blog
2026-10-02https://github.blog/engineering/architecture-optimization/improving-site-performance-by-shipping-more-css/Improving site performance by shipping more CSS
Meshtastic
2026-09-30https://meshtastic.org/An open source, off-grid, decentralized mesh network built to run on affordable, low-power devices
Floci: Any cloud. Locally. The local cloud for AI agents
2026-09-30https://floci.io/Floci is the local cloud for AI coding agents: AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI emulators that start in milliseconds, so agents build and test against a real-shaped cloud with no credentials and no bill. MIT licensed. No account, no auth token.
There is more to code review than (automatable) detection
2026-09-30https://www.adaptivecapacitylabs.com/2026/08/24/there-is-more-to-code-review-than-automatable-detection/Bastardica
2026-09-25https://bastardica.mitpit.com/A type foundry for bastard web fonts.
convaiinnovations/laya Β· Hugging Face
2026-09-23https://huggingface.co/convaiinnovations/layaWeβre on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
CSS-Only Custom Elements
2026-09-22https://dev.to/stuffbreaker/css-only-custom-elements-go6Build real, composable web components using markup and CSS, with no JavaScript
I don't like passkeys
2026-09-20https://hawksley.dev/blog/i-dont-like-passkeysCustom Glow Rings Inside of Elements
2026-09-19https://blog.master.dev/custom-glow-rings-inside-of-elements/A box-shadow is an obvious choice for an inner glow of an element to highlight it. But with some fancy masking, we can use any overlay style we want.
Design a Distributed Job Scheduler: System Design Guide (2026)
2026-09-17https://www.systemdesignhandbook.com/guides/design-a-distributed-job-scheduler/Learn how to design a distributed job scheduler with detailed architecture, scalability, and fault-tolerance insights for real-world System Design interviews.
Tell the speakers that you liked their talks
2026-09-17https://ohhelloana.blog/tell-the-speakers/if you always wanted to but think it isn't worth telling a speaker you liked their talk, this is your encouragement post to do so.
Extracting Grid Information Using CSS
2026-09-17https://blog.master.dev/extracting-grid-information-using-css/It's an interesting and potentially useful trick to have an element know where it is on a grid. That's tricky enough when the items are in one row/column, but what about when they span?
Better Icon and Label Alignment
2026-09-16https://ishadeed.com/article/aligning-list-icons/ashishps1/awesome-system-design-resources: Learn System Design concepts and prepare for interviews using free resources.
2026-09-16https://github.com/ashishps1/awesome-system-design-resourcesLearn System Design concepts and prepare for interviews using free resources. - ashishps1/awesome-system-design-resources
ποΈ The System Design Playbook π
2026-09-16https://dev.to/truongpx396/the-system-design-playbook-3g2a#16-distributed-systems-primitivesA deeply-synthesized, opinionated reference distilled from five canonical...
Nobody pays for open source. We can force them to. | Seldo.com
2026-09-13https://seldo.com/posts/nobody-pays-for-open-source-we-can-force-them-to/Thirty years of voluntary funding schemes haven't paid open source maintainers because asking doesn't scale. The real money already flows β to JFrog, Docker, Sonatype β at the registry layer. The fix: registries charge companies for supply (they already do), then route a slice automatically to the maintainers who make that supply worth having.
Shrink-wrap Text with `position-anchor`
2026-09-12https://blog.codepen.io/2026/09/11/shrink-wrap-text-with-position-anchor/Normal text wrapping can leave big gaps in your container, which can become even more exaggerated with the new-ish CSS values of text-wrap: balance and text-wrap: pretty. You almost certainly want β¦
SVG Shapes
2026-09-09https://www.shapes.gallery/Free copy-paste SVG Shapes for your next project. Made by Monika Michalczyk.
Rust: When Empty Isn't Bottom | ettolrach
2026-09-09https://ettolrach.com/blog/rust_when_empty_isnt_bottom.htmlOptical effects in user interfaces
2026-09-05https://medium.com/design-bridges/optical-effects-9fca82b4cd9aHow to make optically balanced icons, correct shapes alignment, and perfect corner rounding
rothgar/awesome-tuis: List of projects that provide terminal user interfaces
2026-08-31https://github.com/rothgar/awesome-tuisList of projects that provide terminal user interfaces - rothgar/awesome-tuis
Sort branches by last commit date
2026-08-31https://ryangreenberg.com/til/git-branches-by-commit-date/Have You Heard the Good News About Microlighter?
2026-08-25https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/shipping-microlighter/Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
Syntax Highlighting code snippets with Prism and the Custom Highlight API
2026-08-25https://www.bram.us/2024/02/18/custom-highlight-api-for-syntax-highlighting/Can you Syntax Highlight a code snippet on the web without overloading the DOM with a ton of elements wrapped around the tokens? Thanks to the Custom Highlight API, you can!
(One) Good AI Is Here - Anil Dash
2026-08-22https://www.anildash.com/2026/04/28/one-good-ai-is-here/A blog about making culture. Since 1999.