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Fixing my tooltip accessibility mistake

https://jakearchibald.com/2026/my-tooltip-a11y-mistake/
13•robin_reala•1w ago

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ChiperSoft•45m ago
I appreciate the diff lines in each progressive code example, makes it really easy to follow

My server is a phone now

https://seg6.space/posts/phone-server/
196•seg6•6h ago•79 comments

Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386

https://os8088.com/
98•jggonz•5h ago•38 comments

Improving Heuristics for A* Pathfinding

https://www.redblobgames.com/pathfinding/heuristics/differential.html
138•bobbiechen•1w ago•15 comments

"The original URL for this prediction will no longer be available in 11 years." (2011)

https://longbets.org/601/
9•doubletwoyou•32m ago•2 comments

Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled

https://shopify.engineering/scaling-inventory-reservations
111•adletbalzhanov•6h ago•67 comments

Fastmail offers EU data region

https://www.fastmail.com/blog/fastmail-offers-eu-data-region/
354•groomlake•12h ago•178 comments

Dithered QR Codes

https://www.andrewt.net/dithered-qr-codes/wtf/
94•jmusall•5h ago•13 comments

Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect

https://www.nature.com/articles/s44184-025-00171-5
33•davidbarker•6d ago•2 comments

_for-sale DNS records

https://specification.website/spec/foundations/for-sale-dns/
371•shaunpud•15h ago•136 comments

Incentives Are for Losers

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/incentives-are-for-losers
18•bkudria•3h ago•3 comments

Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse

https://eclipsefan.org/?v=2&t=max&layers=eclipse%2Cbesselian%2Cumbra-live%2Cshadow-3d%2Ccloud-pro...
111•MarcoDewey•9h ago•25 comments

Making difficulty curves in games

http://www.davetech.co.uk/difficultycurves
85•hakkikonu•3d ago•32 comments

Melatonin impairs morning cognition in healthy young adults

https://academic.oup.com/sleep/article/46/Supplement_1/A34/7181621
19•bohaska•4h ago•3 comments

The Sound and Music of 'Hyper Light Drifter' [video]

https://gdcvault.com/play/1024135/The-Sound-and-Music-of
35•hyperific•3d ago•7 comments

Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was a Correct Rejection

https://daringfireball.net/2026/08/retraction_app_store_rejection_of_the_week
57•minimaxir•1h ago•4 comments

Fixing my tooltip accessibility mistake

https://jakearchibald.com/2026/my-tooltip-a11y-mistake/
14•robin_reala•1w ago•1 comments

Finding zombies in our systems: A real-world story of CPU bottlenecks

https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering/finding-zombies-in-our-systems-a-real-world-story-of-cpu...
35•fagnerbrack•6d ago•5 comments

Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU

https://blog.getutm.app/2026/introducing-triton-directx-11-driver-for-qemu/
154•electricant•15h ago•29 comments

TheoremDB · A public workspace for machine mathematics

https://theoremdb.org/
14•frozenseven•3h ago•0 comments

Building a local positioning system to track runners using Ultra-Wideband

https://zeus.ugent.be/blog/25-26/12urenloop-uwb/
55•robinpdev•1w ago•3 comments

When Feature Flags Do and Don't Make Sense

https://software.rajivprab.com/2019/12/19/when-feature-flags-do-and-dont-make-sense/
16•whack•5d ago•8 comments

DDisasm: Reversible (bi-directional) Disassembler

https://github.com/GrammaTech/ddisasm
30•aboardRat4•6d ago•5 comments

The phone book that led us to Assad's spy chief in hiding

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gyrzn8p94o
37•cwwc•3h ago•19 comments

Illinois Just Told Every Operating System to Start Reporting Your Kid's Age

https://itsfoss.com/news/illinois-age-verification-bill/
9•WaitWaitWha•58m ago•1 comments

ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/chatgpt-stops-cloning-famous-writers-voices-but-may-capture-a-...
30•Eloissssss•3h ago•15 comments

Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength

https://twitter.com/un1c0rnioz/status/2084686552299634805
248•ilamont•1d ago•181 comments

Preventing Misfolding by Preventing Folding

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/preventing-misfolding-preventing-folding
53•surprisetalk•4d ago•3 comments

Message your other Claude Code sessions

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/cross-session-messaging
92•mfiguiere•13h ago•38 comments

Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt?

https://hackaday.com/2026/08/08/want-energy-efficiency-dude-youre-getting-a-dell/
182•gumby•12h ago•141 comments

Should you stop cracking your knuckles?

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260807-should-i-stop-cracking-my-knuckles
32•tchalla•6h ago•32 comments