HTML capture attribute
I learned about the capture attribute for file inputs today, which
allows you to prompt a user to take a picture and passes it to the file input
for processing. It is only supported by mobile browsers, and I can’t think of
how I would use it. Still, seems like a neat concept.
Setting up my PiBox
I picked up a PiBox and wanted to run it without KubeSail/k3s. The devs at KubeSail have open sourced all of their provisioning scripts and I was able to get things working in a night.
My Git+Synology setup
I upgraded my NAS and setup git on it again. I went a little custom this time around, so I’m documenting it here if I ever need to do it again.
How to setup a git server
Here’s how I setup a git server with Gitweb on a Raspberry Pi.
The Oregon Trail’s Origins
Very interesting documentary on The Oregon Trail’s Origins.
Slack’s scrollbar
I was searching for CSS scrollbar rules for Safari and came across this completely unrelated article about how Slack customizes their scrollbar by hiding it and showing their own. Clever!
Don’t think to write, write to think
This is one of the lessons that every writer comes to appreciate: writing is thinking. Writing is not the artifact of thinking, it’s the actual thinking process.
The Rails Attributes API
Test Double wrote about the Rails Attributes API. Great article—just don’t be tempted to use it on a serialized column like jsonb… you’ll hate yourself eventually like I always do.
90s cursor effects
I saw this list of 90s cursor effects posted on Hacker News today.
The seventy thousand
The Biden administration announced their student debt relief program this week. Of course there are a lot of opinions on this, ranging from literal tears of relief to outright rage over liberals getting another handout. I’m one of those people who penny pinched for years to pay my loans off and I think this is a great idea. Strap in for a story.