2 August 2024

28 links · Friday

Parallax CollectionView in .NET MAUI

Parallax is one of those effects that is dangerously easy to overuse in your apps, but equally, when done right, can add an extra “wow!” factor that elevates an otherwise flat app to give it some depth.

BSD Jumpstart

A comprehensive guide to NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and DragonFlyBSD

Restaurant Hosts Terrify Me

The benefits of being honest about my quirks.

nico’s blog · Job searching in 2024 is horribly broken

The day is July 10th, and my boss pulls me into a meeting with HR and lets me know I'm being let go. He's fired too, and his boss as well, so from the sounds of it, it was just a scorched earth strategy after our department was audited. Time to find a new job.…

📦 How ESM Broke Discord

Last week my Discord client on Ubuntu stopped working, seemingly out of the blue. Little did I know it was related to the highly controversial JavaScript module debate: CommonJS vs ESM. Timeline A quick breakdown of the timeline was as follows: * May 7th …

JIRA Tickets as a Checklist – Jeremy Belcher

Recently, as a function of rapid growth, we were encountering problems with newly released features and functionality due to missing critical considerations in the ticketing process. In other words, we would release functionality and then realize it had produc…

Pomax.github.io

Did you know that there isn't just a dumb, simple Windows utility for turning a joystick or game controller into a MIDI device? Sure. you can find 15 year old utilities (that have no docs, so good luck figuring out why they don't work even if they run), and ye…

Automatic Nix flake follows

If you have used Nix flakes, you likely encountered something like the following. 🤢 std.url = "github:divnix/std"; std.inputs.devshell.follows = "devshell"; std.inputs.nixago.follows = "nixago"; std.inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs"; hive.url = "github:divni…