How to make VS Code load faster with a little bit of housekeeping
Have you noticed that your favorite IDE has been slow to load lately? Try removing these before losing hope.
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Don't center align paragraph text
Stop using centered text. It's bad for usability, accessibility, and eye scanning -- and nobody anywhere wants to read like that.
Has it been four years already?
MLK, presidential inauguration, time illusions, new features in Gatsby, and designing for musicians.
Sip your coffee quietly, act kindly
Watching history happen before our eyes, the economic study of bitcoin, accessibility, and drinking coffee in a quiet room.
The Enthusiast's Hidden Superpower
Optimism and the new year, why being an enthusiast can help you build a better product, espresso drinking and daily writing.
On seasonal change, open source, and carbon offsets
Cognitive science and the framing effect, Open Source software and Working in Public, language learning, creating online courses, and reforestation.
Book notes: Working In Public
My review of Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software by Nadia Eghbal
How to reset your Open Graph embed on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook
If you're dealing with Open Graph metadata for your site, and you can't figure out how to get your OG content to update after you make changes, this is your guide.
gitignore.io is great
Put simply, gitignore.io is a tool that is so profoundly helpful that I've forgotten what life was like without it.
MDX - I should have done this sooner
I added support for mdx to my site, and it's made life much bettter.
I swear I wrote that down somewhere 🤦♂️
Training your brain with networked note-taking, privacy-first analytics for websites, expensive asparagus, speed reading and retention.
Why I switched to Fathom for web analytics
I fully switched my personal site from Google Analytics to Fathom - something that I had been considering for a while, and finally decided to go all in on.
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