Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different. //C.S. Lewis

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Hey friends - we'll be taking next week off for Christmas (the daily edition will keep on sending though). Wishing you a merry time and we'll see you in time to close out 2021! –kale

#Favorites

I started a paper website business
//tinyprojects comments→

Mess with DNS
//jvns comments→

From Node to Ruby on Rails
//nikodunk comments→

Chrome users beware: Manifest v3 is deceitful and threatening
//eff comments→

Marketing is scary for a solo developer
//raumet comments→

Tacit knowledge is more important than deliberate practice
//commoncog comments→

More than you want to know about gift cards
//kalzumeus comments→

The Amazon Empire Strikes Back
//stratechery comments→

#Ask HN

Are most of us developers lying about how much work we do?

What things has tech made worse in your life?

#Show HN

Blender 3.0 //blender comments→

uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results //github comments→

Apache Guacamole //apache comments→

Learn X in Y Minutes //learnxinyminutes comments→

I made a free course, 'NLP for Semantic Search' //pinecone comments→

Jam – Self-Hosted Clubhouse //github comments→

Podcast Audiograms – Make clips with captions, title and audio waves //milkvideo comments→

AlterClass – A platform for making and selling programming courses //alterclass comments→

#Code

Don't start with microservices – monoliths are your friend //arnoldgalovics comments→

Go Replaces Interface{} with 'Any' //github comments→

Improving GitHub Code Search //github comments→

Rails 7 Released //rubyonrails comments→

Lapce – Fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust //github comments→

Rough.js – Create graphics with a hand-drawn, sketchy, appearance //roughjs comments→

#Design

Pico CSS Framework //picocss comments→

Never Use Black //ianstormtaylor comments→

Weird: Generative Art in Common Lisp //github comments→

National Park Typeface //nationalparktypeface comments→

A simple hand drawn HTML/CSS theme //github comments→

Digital Painting with Real Brushes: Light Strokes for iPad //instructables comments→

#Learn

Sleep technique used by Salvador Dalí works //livescience comments→

Kintsugi – Art of Repair //traditionalkyoto comments→

Xsnow //wikipedia comments→

#Books

I wrote a book on web application deployment //deploymentfromscratch comments→

FreeBSD Handbook / Introduction //freebsd comments→

How I Wrote My Book //kevinwmcconnell comments→

Ask HN: Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2021? //ycombinator

Ask HN: What are some must read books? //ycombinator

#Watching

There oughta be a WiFi Game Boy cartridge //oughta comments→

Antikythera Mechanism: An ancient 'computer' that 'shouldn't exist' //youtube comments→

Magnus Carlsen wins longest world chess championship game of all time //chess comments→

The Matrix Awakens: Unreal Engine 5 Techdemo //youtube comments→

Excel World Championship Finals //youtube comments→

#Working

Common Jobs in a Medieval City //medievalists comments→

What does a Principal Software Engineer do? //devgenius comments→

Ten years of experience, still failing phone screens //burke comments→

Managed by Bots: surveillance of gig economy workers //privacyinternational comments→

Work/life balance should be difficult //medium comments→

#Startup News

We will be retiring Alexa.com //alexa comments→

Reddit files to go public //reuters comments→

California halts Pony.ai's driverless testing permit after accident //reuters comments→

Twitter acquires Quill //quill comments→

#Fun

Log4jmemes.com: for those of us that need a laugh //log4jmemes comments→

Busy Simulator: Feign importance with repeating app sounds //busysimulator comments→

Building a PS1 style retro 3D renderer //david-colson comments→

Space-shooter.c: cross-platform, top-down 2D space shooter written in C //github comments→

#Cutting Room Floor

Defensive CSS //ishadeed comments→

BusKill – A USB kill cord for laptops //buskill comments→

Hammerspoon – Lua-based powerful tool automation of macOS //hammerspoon comments→

Americans are rethinking where they want to live //economist comments→

C64 OS: make a Commodore 64 feel fast and useful //c64os comments→

Mu: A Human-Scale Computer //github comments→

Some thoughts on writing //danluu comments→

Super Pyxelate converts images to 8-bit pixel art //github comments→

A Website for Learning Vim //vim comments→

Photos of a KH-12 Kennan Keyhole Secret Military Spy Satellite //spacesafetymagazine comments→

Dfeed – a feed reader you can use without an account //dfeed comments→

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