Olex Ponomarenko 🇺🇦
@olex.co
design engineer, music nerd, hobby collector. portland, maine. originally from ukraine https://olex.co
Every time The Onion mentions Minions it makes my day.
The Onion@theonion.com · 4d agoTranslator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation
Sad to see how low the Reddit homepage has gone... 2009: nerdy blog posts 2026: clips bordering on snuff films
I think one question one should ask oneself before launching a feature like "generate fake satellite imagery" is "does this have any legitimate use-cases?" Everybody who approved this stupid feature should be fired. www.npr.org/2026/07/31/n...
Google pauses AI satellite images, after fears of deepfakes in the sky
Journalists, human rights advocates and open source analysts recoiled in horror at the initial decision: "The opportunities for abuse and disinfo are literally boundless," said one.
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🚨 FULL SWEEP IN CUMBERLAND 🚨 Team Troy just won every delegate in Maine's largest county!
Having seen both him & Platner speak at the Oligarchy rally, I don't think there's a better path forward for Mainers than running @troyjackson207.bsky.social in Platner's place. He'd make a great senator!
Poetic CSS course is live for early-bird registration! Only available during July. Thanks for your patience, we had some last-minute fixes. #css courses.oddbird.net/poetic-css/
Poetic CSS
Understand CSS as a system — so you can write, review, and maintain web styles with confidence on a timeline and under budget.
courses.oddbird.net
If you’re gonna fire all of us to sit around and circle jerk a slop machine at least lower the rent and give us UBI so the kids can start bands and get painting studios, you sad fucks.
marking off AI slop / seo spam pages experimenting with collective action on the whole internet
Daniel Dylan Wray on the record's making, impact and legacy, plus the complicated legacy of IDM via interviews with artists featured on the album, other key players, journalists... An Oral History Of Warp’s Artificial Intelligence: #ThePortal - Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive buff.ly/dE5VR2y
have your <del>people</del> markdown files talk to my <del>people</del> markdown files
To mark the somber forty year anniversary since the Chornobyl nuclear disaster, the Kyiv Independent presents five books that illuminate the lived experiences of those affected, the enduring aftermath, and how Russia’s full-scale war has reignited global concern over nuclear disaster.
On the 40 year anniversary, here are 5 books to better understand Chornobyl nuclear disaster
On April 26, 1986, the explosion at Reactor No. 4 of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant forever changed the lives of millions in Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia. Although Communist authorities initially ...
kyivindependent.com
Today's GitHub squash-n-merge bug, assuming it hit every org, is so wild. HOW?!!
Is there anything more Eastern European than cutting a cucumber lengthwise in midair with a paring knife, pouring a pinch of salt on one half, and rubbing the halves together?
Just sending this out to the universe because it would be a hilarious reboot: [John] Cena: Warrior Princess
The chasm between "my engineer says they can build a useful browser plugin in one shot" and threatening Salesforce / JIRA / Slack contracts because "AI will just build custom software that we'll use" is like 5 grand canyons wide.
“Staff members at the United States’s premier infectious-disease research institute have been instructed to remove the words “biodefense” and “pandemic preparedness” from the institute’s web pages, according to e-mails Nature has obtained.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: Key US infectious-diseases centre to drop pandemic preparation
Staff members have been instructed to scrub this topic and ‘biodefense’ from the agency’s website.
nature.com
Announcing The CSS Selection! 📰 www.projectwallace.com/the-css-sele... 📚 100,000 websites ⏱️ 100+ metrics 🔖 7 chapters The biggest deep-dive ever into real-world use of CSS across the globe. Dive in and find out some hidden gems. Also, see how much of 'the new CSS' is actually used!
The CSS Selection - 2026 Edition - Project Wallace
The CSS Selection shows real-world CSS usage from over 100,000 websites and looks at the most important metrics.
projectwallace.com
How do we get so many clicks in them? We put links in the buttons. That's 100% more click, per click. youtu.be/6i-nMWgBUp0?...
Aperture Investment Opportunity #3: "Turrets"
YouTube video by Valve
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Manuel Matuzović @matuzo.at · 6mo agoyo we heard you like interactive elements, so we put a link in a button so you can click while you click.
The Portland Press Herald obtained court records and talked to prosecutors, jail administrators, defense attorneys and others to examine cases on the Trump administration's 'worst of the worst' website. * Free to access
A closer look at the Maine names on Homeland Security’s ‘worst of the worst’ list
Federal officials have publicized a database of arrests as part of its justification for recent enhanced enforcement efforts, but the list cites decades-old charges and arrests made by local police mo...
pressherald.com
Portland really showed up today. Thousands of people out in a town of 70,000!
Hey! Finally can share a font I was working on for GitButler. We wanted a typeface that combined the precision of code with the beauty of magazine layouts. The result is a high-contrast, geometric and distinct But Head! 🔗 Story & Download: gitbutlerapp.github.io/but-head
But Head | A Free Typeface
gitbutlerapp.github.io
Introducing CSS Grid Lanes. The WebKit team announced the next major step in web layouts: long-awaited native masonry-style layouts are now available in Safari TP 234. It uses the new item-tolerance CSS property and leverages full CSS grid power. #css #layout webkit.org/blog/17660/i...
