new http method just dropped

New HTTP RESTful method just dropped, or is about to: QUERY. It's a GET, except it takes a body rather than stuff everything in the query string. Makes a lot of sense for stuff like GraphQL, where we're sending a lot of fancy queries client side (vs, say, mutations, where other RESTful verbs-with-body-content make sense)

an eldritch horror from 2009

 

One advantage of being a literal graybeard is remembering when you see an old problem raise its head and finding artifacts of its earlier reign....  in this case a 2009 post about the inadisability of parsing html via regex

smart humble design

 It's almost amusing, in a Don Norman "Design of Everyday Things" sense, how much better the old-fashioned jug is than the pretty new style container. It really makes one appreciate the elegance and cleverness of the integrated handle that easily allows for one handed pouring.

UX and Design really can make life better..

yeet!

ahaha the vibe coding approach to deployment - yeet inspects your code, figures out which provider to host it on, and does it. and gives a millennial response about code quality.

automatically set branch tracking when pushing new branch

 For a while I was using 
 git push --set-upstream origin HEAD

when pushing a new branch to the remote, and wanting to track (which is like always the case)

but today I learned I can run this command

git config --global push.autoSetupRemote true

which means I can go back to easier to type (no need to copy and paste) "git push".

rage against the machine

fun hackers vs the spying vacuum story....

https://codetiger.github.io/blog/the-day-my-smart-vacuum-turned-against-me/