Sam (@samthor.au)

7 Aug

Going to bring back cool ampersands ɛ̩̍ tell you all about them.

25 June

If you spill something sticky on your MacBook, try spraying a little bit of whiteboard cleaner around the effected keys. Works well. Posting for a friend.

20 June

PSA: you can just buy Android Find My (aka Apple AirTag) devices for AU$12-15 each right now. Just go buy some now and put them in your stuff. I'll wait.

get in the

My next several hours

Sam reposted

Replying to @rowan.fyi

tokens died for this joke

28 Apr

Child's first economics: > so dad, what happens if the shop runs out of money? Who would have any money? Well, turns out the government can make more money. > So they can just give everyone more money!

samthor.auBase64 Is Fast Now, ActuallyThe browser's base64 encoding is fast now

28 Apr

Well, yes, but .., how much do you want to learn about money? > I want to learn everything! Okay. So, the first thing is, money is made up. And we all agree to use it. > I didn't agree! 🙃

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Vale

@vale.rocks

20 Apr

Vercel got pwned, so here is another prompt to stop using them. Entirely unrelated, but here is a picture of Vercel's CEO with Netanyahu, the man responsible for the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

shoosh Go I know it

lol Gemini what

samthor.au/2026/base64-... 🗜️💨

7 Apr

Actually I've buried the lede, this is really about encoding binary data in JS strings as UTF-16. But it's not as good as base64 now. Just use base64.

5 Apr

the house is slowly getting over COVID. pity I bombed some professional stuff in the middle of the week, maybe related, who knows. 🫠

blog.gitbutler.comThe Great CSS ExpansionCSS now does what Floating UI, GSAP ScrollTrigger, Framer Motion, and react-select used to require JavaScript for. Here is exactly how much that saves, why these libraries were painful beyond their si...

2 Apr

this is a great CSS read. blog.gitbutler.com/the-great-cs... not to mention syntax improvements; nested CSS, CSS vars and mixing colors, et al.

31 Mar

Wake me up when fetch() has a supply chain attack

github.comGitHub - samthor/nanbox: Box yer NaNsBox yer NaNs. Contribute to samthor/nanbox development by creating an account on GitHub.

30 Mar

Tired of storing your bytes in regular memory? Have you always wanted to pack them into NaNs instead? github.com/samthor/nanbox

25 Mar

> Now can lick runes to pull them. Rune-licking refunds spent mana it's all I've ever wanted 🐸

abc.net.auGovernment warned now-closed 'horse and cart' Convict Bridge unfit for modern trafficThe Blue Mountains community warned the NSW government the Great Western Highway's historic Convict Bridge could not withstand modern day traffic prior to its closure last week.

10 Mar

"...it's carrying probably 1,800 truck movements a day..." Let's say each truck = one 20 foot container Let's say 900 each way, and 30 flatbeds for 60 containers, that's 15 trains/direction/day extra. I wish this was actually a reasonable alternative in NSW.

ABC News Bot (unofficial)@abcnewsbot.bsky.social

The Blue Mountains community warned the NSW government the Great Western Highway's historic Convict Bridge could not withstand modern day traffic prior to its closure last week.

it's been 100 years

The AI and me cut 5% (for Node) and 30% (for browsers) off but-unzip: probably the world’s smallest unzip library. npmx.dev/package/but-...

npmx.devbut-unzip - npmxtiny (<1k) unzip for node/browser

abc.net.auTwo big tax holes are perpetuating Australia's wealth inequalityIntergenerational inequality will only be dealt with by taxing the people that have the money, not by cutting the taxes of those who don't have it.

2 Mar

I don't know why I even mention on the page that it has 95% browser support. `fetch()` only has 96.3%. `async` is 96.2%. CSS Grid is 96.5%. The last 5% can't use the interactive internet today in _any_ meaningful way. (Yes, ship uninteractive HTML/CSS. But stop imagining we can compile 'web apps')

more train riding

alert CERN

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David Pocock

@davidpocock.bsky.social

23 Feb

Alan Kohler talking about the urgent need to tackle inequality. The major parties talk about it a lot but don't seem to want to do what it'll take: 💸 changes to CGT discount on investment properties 💸 start taxing wealth more than work 💸 get a fair return for our natural resources

21 Feb

People are giving Google a hard time for the Pixel 10a. But it's legitimately a decent phone with zero camera bump. No "almost nothing". No "measure the main part of the phone". Just flat. Not since the old iPhone SE have we been so lucky. Anyway, flat lovers unite.

thank $DIETY

hooray, it's `x := new(1)` day

it's a train watching day

someone should base64 their fonts

matthiasott.comWebspace Invaders · Matthias OttThere’s something happening on the Web at the moment that almost feels like watching that old arcade game Space Invaders play out across our servers. Bots and scrapers marching in formation, attacking...

I have some thoughts, but overall a good read.

Dave Rupert@davatron5000.bsky.social

This is the same bot attack that nearly took down the A11y Project site last year. @matthiasott.com describes the problem in detail. matthiasott.com/articles/web...