Such a brilliant idea to generate your own data and then do a dataviz piece on it 🤯 pudding.cool/2026/06/mow/
Why some people mow a lawn better than others
We analyzed 132,003 attempts to mow a virtual lawn efficiently.
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Owen Lacey
@owenlacey.dev
Developer / Maths nerd / Attention seeker 🌐 owenlacey.dev 📍 Leeds, UK
See if you can spot the point where Strava (orange) put their API behind a paywall
"ALWAYS" in agent instructions feels like a worse version of css !important
That feeling when you find a library that does exactly what you need it to, nothing more 👌
Has someone made a letmeclaudethatforyou yet? I have some use cases
BBC breakfast cutting to a primary school who are watching the match replay not knowing the result yet goes down as one of the best moments of 2026 for me
I hate git submodules - I can't be alone here? Theoretically game-changing, but so fiddly to actually get value from them
So, the plot of Toy Story 5 is exactly the same as Inside Out 2? Am I going mad?
I've started getting RSI twinges in my right hand and it's giving me the heebie-jeebies. Does anyone have any recommendations (wrist protectors, ergonomic keyboard, voice control software)?
I've just finished storyboarding my Kevin Bacon blog post. I actually have a clear structure, beginning middle end, all that jazz This is by far the hardest I've worked on a post before I've properly started it - I even made an app as a side quest ffs 😅
Today I picked my train carriage based on the optimal stopping problem (looking into each carriage and seeing how busy it is) - got a table seat
New blog post: Compositing & Blending! 🥳 I spent the last few months reading all about blend modes so you don't have to: You'll learn what compositing and blending are, and what is actually going on under the hood when you apply blend modes in CSS 🎨 nik.digital/posts/compos...
Compositing & Blending • Niklas Gadermann
Exploring the math and intuition behind blend modes in the browser
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One of my biggest pet peeves of appearing competent is that people will just send me links to tech stuff with no context. Why are you sending me this? What do you want me to do with this information? Can I just say "cool" and not read it?
I built an interactive guide on how Shazam (the music identification app) works! This is the next installment in my newly coined "How The Heck?" series, where we explore everyday tech that can feel like magic (QR Codes, GPS, and now this one). Hope you enjoy it! perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck...
I made a contexto.me solver. I was able to zero in on it using the GloVe 300d dataset. Uses lemmas under the hood (runs, run, runing -> run), and then "just" find the word(s) where the guess is X distance away. I think my best score before this was like 50.
This is exciting. The majority of my projects involve using Googles CP-SAT solver in some way. Today, I got a PoC js port working
This is one of those things you make that barely anyone notices, but gives me endless joy. Site is football.six-degrees.app/daily