At one point as a teenager I did arrange a physical swap of “hacking” software on floppy disks in a series of posts on a BBS using coded language. We rollerbladed to a laser tag arena and traded the disks inside. Everything I have done since then has been determinedly less cool, so I understand the yearning for the prelapsarian past, even if I recognize the impulse as problematic and reactionary. But we did lose something. --Glyph

Work has been about SSO via SAML2 lately - maybe I should write a blog post about that 🤔. But unlike last month, I made some progress on some small non-work related tasks last week:

• Had to learn that you can use the chatGPT to pay openAI via Apple Pay, when your bank blocks payments to openAI.
• Slowly learning all the features of the banking software I use. The automatic categorization feature is much better than I expected and it is able to automatically download bank statements in pdf format. Had I known about this feature earlier, it would have saved me some really awkward phone calls to my banks to get old statements from microfilm (I'm completely baffled as to why accountants prefer the pdf versions over the csv exports, but they do...).
• My DSL router at home has a tendency to reduce the bandwidth of it's Ethernet ports from 1Gbit to 100Mbit (rendering all my carefully placed Wifi-6 access points useless). At first I thought it might be a hardware failure, but I replaced the hardware and the problem persisted. So now I have all my oddly wired devices connected to a cheap switch and only the switch connected to my router. That seems to work now.

Articles

• What Is A Single-page Application? | Hrhr
• Multilingual Support In Django
• Tailwind vs. Semantic CSS | Hmm, takeaway for me is that I probably should at least learn semantic CSS before relying heavily on tailwind
• Links with Tips and Advice for Public Speaking | Lots of valuable sources
• CSS :has() Interactive Guide
• White House recommends use of memory-safe languages like Python | Weird but fun
• ARCHITECTURE.md | Yep.

Mastodon

• Even though I came to terms with async functions with years, I still can't shake the feeling that something wrong there. 😏
• I aim to code a new toggle switch each day in 2024
• When the impostor syndrome kicks in...

Weeknotes

• Weeknotes: Getting ready for NICAR | Simon Willison
• Weeklog for Week 8: February 19 to February 25 | Johannes

Videos

• The CSS Cascade - A (re)introduction

Software

• Lightning CSS v1.24.0 release

Books

• Basiswissen Requirements Engineering

Podcasts

• Macht nix. Wie wir bestehende Machtstrukturen - vielleicht - dekonstruieren können (Was denkst du denn?) | Good one
• WR1572 Sachverständigenrat, Wachstumsförderung (Wirtschaftskunde) | Always entertaining
• The new Parser (core.py) | So good!