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Written by benschwarz on 2025-01-16 at 06:41

Quick update on our Foodbank donation drive from December:

🏆 $2,811 raised 🏆

Big thanks to everyone who shared their hard earned

https://support.foodbankvictoria.org.au/fundraisers/benkarolinaandfriends

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Written by benschwarz on 2025-01-16 at 00:20

Quick dip into Apple shareholder votes to see how things are going…

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Written by benschwarz on 2025-01-15 at 22:48

Man City’s 115 charges

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Written by benschwarz on 2025-01-15 at 08:39

“The code is self documenting”

— Guy who expects others to read ALL his code to understand what it does at a very basic level

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Written by benschwarz on 2025-01-13 at 03:53

💅 Updated Calibre Analytics' changelog to have yearly archive pages, great way to show how the product incrementally improves over time

https://calibreapp.com/changelog

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Written by benschwarz on 2025-01-13 at 01:18

🌪️ What a whirlwind of a weekend!

Thousands of people have already used & benefited from our new Website Speed Test Tool, very cool to see 🙇‍♂️

https://front-end.social/@benschwarz/113802590460960041

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Written by benschwarz on 2025-01-10 at 06:15

🍃 I made a completely free website speed test tool!

You can use it to optimise your pages, no sign up required.

In each test:

• Performance metrics

• Lighthouse Audits

• Third Party script report

• Google Core Web Vitals Dashboard

No money down, fast website 🏆

https://calibreapp.com/tools/website-speed-test

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Written by benschwarz on 2025-01-08 at 22:22

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Written by benschwarz on 2025-01-08 at 02:36

TIL: Apple use Storybook to document the MusicKit API.

As part of MusicKit, there are Web Components that you can use in your page to display album artwork, or even embed a player.

https://js-cdn.music.apple.com/musickit/v3/docs/index.html

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Written by benschwarz on 2025-01-07 at 12:54

“iTS a MaRkUP laNguAGE, it’s in the name”, they say.

Yeah sure, but it was called a markup language in 1993 when it didn’t DO anything interactive whatsoever. There weren’t even images in HTML initially.

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Written by benschwarz on 2025-01-07 at 01:23

Checking in on today’s pathetic web culture war: Is HTML programming???

Get out of the way you pedantic nerds. It’s programming, it doesn’t matter.

Build something great for people, that matters.

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Written by benschwarz on 2025-01-03 at 03:38

How to find the 🍳 cookers in your company in one fell swoop:

• Survey preferred pronouns

Those boys will out themselves quicker than you can say “fragile and confused”

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Written by benschwarz on 2025-01-03 at 02:28

Run PostgreSQL in Github Actions for tests?

Clever bmizerany released https://github.com/bmizerany/setup-postgres, which uses binary/embedded PG.

Startup time is <3s 💨

In my case it saved 30s per parallellised build step, or around 10 minutes (total) per build. 🍃

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Written by benschwarz on 2024-12-18 at 03:28

Spotify decided to cut access to APIs that could be used to create recommendations, generative playlists and audio analysis.

A lot of that data originally came from the echo nest, a company Spotify bought in 2014.

Now that data is locked in Spotify forever

https://developer.spotify.com/blog/2024-11-27-changes-to-the-web-api

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Written by benschwarz on 2024-12-18 at 03:27

EOY Foodbank donation update:

✅ $2,500 funding goal reached

✅ #9 on the leader board of top teams

Thanks to everyone who donated to help fund meals for those in need 🤗

You can contribute here: https://support.foodbankvictoria.org.au/fundraisers/benkarolinaandfriends/

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Written by benschwarz on 2024-12-05 at 22:43

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Written by benschwarz on 2024-11-26 at 23:57

In the lead up to EOY/Christmas @fox & I created a fundraiser for Food Bank Victoria, an org that feeds 69K people each day.

A $10 donation provides a meal to someone who needs a warm heart and full belly.

If you can help with a donation ($10 is totally acceptable!), please do.

https://support.foodbankvictoria.org.au/fundraisers/benkarolinaandfriends

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Written by benschwarz on 2024-11-23 at 05:53

One for the ruby folks:

good_job or solid_queue?

Use case is a queue that’ll work a few hundred thousand records per day, wanting to be able to set concurrency limits per job, fully supportive of all active job features

Good job seems to have a better console & no basecamp affiliation, so on paper maybe it’s the one to try next?

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Written by benschwarz on 2024-11-19 at 23:50

I see the state of JS survey has discovered women exist

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Written by benschwarz on 2024-11-15 at 01:27

Oh boy.

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