sidenote: coop is also a large swedish grocery chain, pronounced the same way :)

https://www.coop.se/

not only in Sweden, in Germany and Switzerland as well. I guess it has the same origins in the trade unionist purchasing cooperatives at the turn of the century from the 19th to the 20th

At least in Germany, it's pronounced co-op, though. The stores got rebranded meanwhile. https://www.coop.de/coop/historie/

Italy, UK... Yep.

we call our local co-op "the coop" for no real reason :)

i like em dashes too, and i've started using double dash -- to signify readers i'm a person

Same. On Google Docs it auto-corrects to an en-dash (–), which is annoying, but I find the double dash (--) more easy to spot and read on computer screens.

Also, cosmetically I don't really like how em-dashes are used without spacing (e.g. "this—then that" instead of "this — then that"). Feels like we're trying to import publishing styles from newspapers and books heavy on serif font to places where monospace and sans-serif is the norm and it doesn't quite fit well.

i often find xargs ends up biting me, and i have wanted some alternative for a while... but i don't think this is the one for me.

it feel like the syntax here is odd. it still requires me to write quote my command i want to run? unfortunately i'll have to pass on this.

personally i'd want some variant where i can still auto-complete commands and have just have {} as a placeholder. (maybe time to learn how to use xargs for real?)

i always forget the parameters in if statements are in bash. i have come back to this page multiple times, it's a nice resource.

Why not just using man or info. eg.

    info test

i managed to get 8 pieces standing on the log, without any of them falling off.

regarding `* { box-sizing: border-box; }`, i usually follow the "Probably Slightly Better Best-Practice"

https://css-tricks.com/inheriting-box-sizing-probably-slight...

recently i've ran into products that feel like they were not meant to be used, but instead just follow some specification list.

for me, the end user's experience goes above all.

There's a weird theme I've seen in some American companies, where they will avoid communicating with the end user and letting everything be one sided

> I do not hear the end user, therefore it does not exist

Not literally, but that's what it feels like.

It's probably safer, but in the long run you're not building any trust.

Kagi is really nice. i love the built-in feature to hide certain pages from appearing from results, and also how AI their stuff really feels opt-in. there are a bunch of other small things like navigation with keyboard that i really like too.

looks nice when you want to quickly get something up and running! i'm trying to move away from GUI-based, and i haven't really found a nice workflow with just using curl

https://justuse.org/curl/

I used to write Python scripts with Requests or run from terminal. It has a nicer syntax, all LLMs know it, and we all used Python in the backend.

https://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/index.html

If you already have Python installed, I'm still a big fan of the httpie CLI [1]. It's a CLI wrapper for Requests that provides a very friendly CLI DSL.

[1] https://httpie.io/cli

Unfortunately it appears unmaintained, and still doesn't support HTTP/2, which is a non-starter for me.

Oh, man, that write-up is hilarious! Hilarious and true. The KISS principle is the way to go.

> So people end up running full desktop environments (KDE, GNOME, etc.) squeezed onto a tiny 7" touchscreen. It's miserable.

to add on to this: you can definitely make great UI's for small screens and unconventional controls -- Playdate [1] builds their UI around a physical crank on the device, and it feels fun to use it :)

[1] https://play.date/