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Tips for building Bubble Tea programs

In the words of its authors Bubble Tea is a “powerful little TUI framework” for Go. It may be little but I found it had a steep learning curve before I could get truly comfortable with its power. I spent many a late night wrangling with broken layouts and unresponsive keys before learning the hard way where I had gone wrong. The result of my efforts is PUG, a full screen terminal interface for driving terraform:

From Scrappy Pallet Wood To Fancy Tea Tray

Pallets are a wonderful way to package goods and move them around, but especially the wooden ones have a very finite lifespan. This means that many of them are discarded every day, even though ther…

teal.fm - Your music journey, beautifully tracked

Track your music listening across all platforms with teal.fm - The most beautiful way to scrobble and analyze your music history. Coming soon.

Databases in 2024: A Year in Review

Andy rises from the ashes of his dead startup and discusses what happened in 2024 in the database game.

[XFCE] My first simple rice. I love green

304 votes, 18 comments. 617K subscribers in the unixporn community. Submit screenshots of all your *NIX desktops, themes, and nifty configurations…

Taste Is All That's Left | Blog

On what is left to do once the machine can make anything, and why taste is the last craft worth keeping.

The Marshmallow Test - Bluesky signals it's willing to eat its young

At AtmosphereConf, Bluesky celebrated its community, then signaled it's willing to eat them alive. No context. No acknowledgment. I was in the room.

What happened to Science Goodreads and how do we rebuild it? A 65 million dollar question (at least) - CAIROS Blog

The story of the rise and fall of Mendeley

An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time

PHerc. 1667 has been virtually unwrapped and read from beginning to end — without ever being opened.

I Do Not Accept Your TOS - Tynan's Leaflets

W is proof that the ecosystem is working

Wesley's notes

Takeaways from our Exploratory Leaflet <-> Semble Integration Call

smash the looms

This week I was on a bus behind a young couple and the guy was boring the girl to tears talking about the Very Exciting News that chatgpt-5 had been...

This is Not the End of Reading. It's the End of Modernism.

Why academics and journalists are confusing Modernism with reading itself.

Helen’s History and Herbalism Walk - The Cockburn Association

Water of Leith Walk