Bret Little

Bret Little

@bretlittle.com

Web2 software dev at Shopify working on agentic commerce in rural Maine. More at www.bretlittle.com See photography at https://bsky.app/profile/bret-little-photo.bsky.social

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👀 Ooh, support for `interpolate-size: allow-keywords` and `calc-size()` in Safari Technology Preview 254. These two allow you to do things like animating elements to `height: auto`. Check developer.chrome.com/docs/css-ui/... to get the details.

developer.chrome.comAnimate to height: auto; (and other intrinsic sizing keywords) in CSS  |  CSS and UI  |  Chrome for DevelopersAnimate to and from intrinsic sizing keywords with `interpolate-size` and `calc-size()`

I do a lot of timelapses. I used to use Adobe software, then I transitioned to scripting ffmpeg. This weekend I decided to build a basic desktop app that automates the common things I want ffmpeg to do: blittle.github.io/railtrack/ Check it out if you do panning timelapses or star trails.

blittle.github.ioRailTrack — 4K timelapses with a windowed pan & star trailsRailTrack turns a folder of large photos into a 4K or vertical timelapse, with a smooth windowed pan, star-trail stacking, denoise, and fast previews.

AI helps me with what I know and what I know I don't know. But it rarely reveals anything about what I don't know I don't know. Those unknown unknowns often only surface through the process of doing the work myself. If we offload too much to AI, what will we fail to discover?

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Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

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👀 Navigation API will be available in all browsers soon 🎉 Completely redefines the APIs used to build client-side routers / SPAs 🫤 History API: popState, link click.preventDefault() ... ✅ Navigation API: clean, centralized way to intercept navigation events 👌

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The Navigation API is also in Firefox 146 nightly This is going to be available everywhere soon 🎉

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The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

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Tech companies are potentially as dangerous to western economic security as China, and governments are struggling in the same way to balance the potential economic upsides with the threats.

Graham Lanktree@glanktree.bsky.social

The British government is preparing to roll back on its pledge to make Big Tech companies pay for scams in its upcoming fraud strategy. www.politico.eu/article/keir...

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I just created the “Remix 3 Resources” repo, collecting useful links related to Remix 3. It has *super* granular links to the Remix Jam live stream for each API, feature and demo, plus a bunch of demo apps and 3rd party integration examples. github.com/markdalgleis...

github.comGitHub - markdalgleish/remix3-resources: A collection of useful links relating to Remix 3A collection of useful links relating to Remix 3. Contribute to markdalgleish/remix3-resources development by creating an account on GitHub.

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inherit() is going to be absolutely huge for working with CSS custom properties. Two big things it'll enable: Nested indentation: --indent: calc(inherit(--indent, 0) + 1); Overridable design token defaults: --primary-color: inherit(--primary-color, blue);

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Replying to @anatudor.bsky.social

The issue is devs using MacOS with hidden scrollbars. If you're a web dev, your scrollbars need to be set to "always visible".

I want a instagram style feed of photography images on my website, but don't want to use instagram. @atproto/api made it super simple and easy to build a web component that does it. My only complaint is @atproto/api is 900kb 🙀 Check it out here: github.com/blittle/blue...

github.comGitHub - blittle/bluesky-image-feed: A web component for displaying image feeds from Bluesky profilesA web component for displaying image feeds from Bluesky profiles - blittle/bluesky-image-feed

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Replying to @fraying.bsky.social

Genuinely, the US is quickly sliding into fascism and Google and Apple have proven they are not going to stick up for us when the government gives them unconstitutional orders. Stop making apps they can remove from their app stories on a whim. Make websites instead. At least make it hard for them.

Why do we as a society allow billionaires to exist?

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social

Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'