Links

Modern search engines suck, so here's a list of links to resources that I like. I hope you like them too!

Tech

Elixir

The best programming language for creating web APIs, bar none. Builds on top of Erlang, which solved the problem of concurrency and distributed systems all the way back in the 80s

Zed

A new high-performance text editor that's a great alternative to Electron slop like VSCode and it's forks

Neovim

The One True Text Editor

kickstart.nvim

A starting point for your Neovim configuration. While Neovim is powerful, initial setup can be challenging. kickstart.nvim provides a solid foundation, offering more than just basic functionality to help you get started quickly

These Modern Programming Languages Will Make You Suffer

While I don't agree with all the points in this article, the overall message is good: Choose your programming language carefully!

Object-Oriented Programming — The Trillion Dollar Disaster

OOP? More like OOPs, you broke global state again!

Mozilla's 'Privacy Not Included'

Product reviews in regards to privacy. Did you know that employees of Amazon Ring were caught spying on female customers?

htmx.org

High power tools for HTML. Also has a bunch of essays related to web development

The ‘Enshittification’ of TikTok

"Here is how platforms die: First, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die."

Building a website like it's 1999... in 2022

The web used to be so interesting

Miscellaneous

five.sh

Cool website