Donny Daniel

Connector of dots. Narrow Road stumbler. Soli Deo Gloria.

(personal account)

[Donny Daniel @dnnydnl]

"There is little new under the sun ... much of what we must do is to continue repackaging eternal truths for a new context"

A wonderful nugget of wisdom from @dhh's reading list.

[DHH @dhh]

What I've been reading, as answered to automatic monthly question in our Basecamp.

[Daniel Lemire @lemire]

Actual email exchange I just had.

[Gregor @ghohpe]

Reference architecture

[Maciej Walkowiak 🍃 @maciejwalkowiak]

This microservice could have been a SQL query

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

Chatbot search is a terrible idea, especially in an era in which the web is likely to fill up with vast mountains of AI #bullshit, the frozen gabble of #StochasticParrots:

https://t.co/9IBi1wrTzP 10/

[Kitasenju Design @kitasenjudesign]

I made a lenticular printing style website
レンチキュラー風ウェブサイトできた
#threejs #webgl #webdesign

[Tim Ottinger @tottinge]

Market fit matters so much, that companies make a lot of money and get a lot of users *despite* their process and practices, NOT BECAUSE OF THEM.

I freely admit and accept that.

[Retro Tech Dreams @RetroTechDreams]

SGI's 3D File System Navigator (1993)

[Donny Daniel @dnnydnl]

Still remember being blown away by the 2Advanced website revisions...

[Web Design Museum @WebDesignMuseum]

Futuristic web design trends 20 years ago

– depthCORE
– Ketuh Records
– Offbias Flight Emotions
– RealitySlip

and more...
https://t.co/tvcolED39U

#WebDesignHistory

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

Why did artists stop making art?

[Evan You @evanyou]

Vitest pro tip: if you have many test files and they share a lot of common modules, tests actually run faster with --no-threads because it avoids repeated module initialization costs. This made Vue 3 unit tests run 6x faster on CI 🤯

[Forrest Brazeal @forrestbrazeal]

I'll never forget asking a guy who maintained 40yo mainframes for an insurance co why he didn't just migrate the apps.

His reply: the firm's actuarial code relies on specific bugs in the mainframe OS's floating-point handling. Run on any other system, it would produce chaos.

[François Chollet @fchollet]

We have two latent superpowers: paying attention and giving a shit. If you fully leverage them, you're ahead of 99% of people

[Donny Daniel @dnnydnl]

@strlen 🎵
The answer my friend is flowin' in the logs,
The answer is flowin' in the logs
🎵

😆

[sam @SamuelBeek]

This UI is 17(!) years old, and still looks super modern

[The Better India @thebetterindia]

#Himachal’s Baljeet Kaur became the first (and only) Indian to climb five 8,000-metre peaks in a single season.

#Inspiration #Passion #ChaseYourDreams #FirstWoman #HimachalPradesh

[Donny Daniel @dnnydnl]

@JonathanGiles @ralph_squillace I wonder if Jetbrains Gateway would help with the speed issue:

https://t.co/lRcF58KNPx

[Shriram Krishnamurthi (primary: Bluesky) @ShriramKMurthi]

Terrific Patreon update about the state of Mastodon.

Interesting that 31K/month is enough to cover costs and leave some over for growth. (Reminiscent of arXiv.) Open protocols create even more opportunity.

If you're on Mastodon, support your instance and Mastodon central!

[Riley Goodside @goodside]

The prompt injection attack I keep in my Twitter bio is pulling in a great harvest tonight.

[Jaana Dogan ヤナ ドガン @rakyll]

Many tech execs or startup founders don’t understand what engineers liked about working at institutions like Bell Labs, PARC, or Google. I don’t expect them to understand.

[Jehad Affoneh @jaffoneh]

This is also a reminder that your business only gets more complex *unless* you actively simplify.

Most businesses focus on reducing complexity as they grow.

What you really need to focus on is *scaling simplicity*. That’s where you start getting exponential gains.