Thomas
Rosen

Interesting stuff

Some articles that I think are worth reading. And other stuff that I think might be interesting for some ppl :)

This is all from other people. The links could change after i put them here. So maybe check them on archive.org if something is weird.

These are sorted by date not by importance.

mapping

Valhalla Routing Engine

I was looking into isochrone services and found that there is an api for that in Valhalla. I knew Valhalla existed, but never had a use case. It's also too much for me to host on my MacBook Air ahhah. But the demo api endpoint was enough to see it working :) If you ever do something with routing and OSM data, Valhalla is interesting to look into.
https://valhalla.github.io/valhalla/
js

How Convex Works

How Convex syncs data can feel like magic. Knowing how it really works under the hood simplifies and demystifies it. This really long article from the Convex team themselves details everything that could be known about it.
https://stack.convex.dev/how-convex-works
color

What are OKLCH colors?

Explainer on what this new oklch thing is in web-colors. Quick to read with nice visual examples. Topics: Display-P3 vs sRGB, gradients in the different color-models, and how to use it in CSS.
https://jakub.kr/components/oklch-colors
transportappandroid

Öffi Android App

An android app get all infos public-transport related. Good if ur local transit-organisations app is not great or you dont want to really on google maps. The app is not beautiful but really fucntional.
https://oeffi.schildbach.de/
color

What is a color space?

An in depth book-chapter about color-spaces. It touches on color-theory, how the eye works, of course how color spaces are defined in detail and even talks about displays and thus what gamut means. So yeah, if u want to learn something about color, this is a great read. Dan Hollick is writing a book about anything software related. This is one chapter of it. The website itselfs describs the book as follows: "A reference manual for people who design and build software. Written and illustrated by Dan Hollick."
https://www.makingsoftware.com/chapters/color-spaces-models-and-gamuts
jsreact

animation

richtig guter online course über Animationen mit Framer Motion. Aber auch wie UI generell gut animatiert werden kann. der Kurs kostet etwas, also wichtig: ich hab kein geld hierfür bekommen! falls wem der kurs zu teuer ist, gibt es viele gute Artikel im Internet wo das Wissen auch verfügbar ist :) Der Ersteller des Kurses selber hat einige gute Artikel geschrieben: https://emilkowal.ski/
https://animations.dev
databases

turso (sqlite rewrite in rust)

an sqlite rewite that can run in the browser (wasm) and has vector search build in. still in alpha, but might be interesting. i could not find anything about performance or bundlesize.
https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso
typing

monkeytype.com

if u wanna check how fast u can type on the keyboard, monkeytype is perfect for that competition
https://monkeytype.com/
typing

typing.com

i mostly used this website to learn 10-finger-typing. everything i needed there is/was free and quite good.
https://www.typing.com
solarpunkai

Buntes Amt für Zukunft Nürnberg

Webseite mit AI generierten Ideen/Visionen, wie Nürnberg in der Zukunft aussehen könnte. gibt einige hübsche Inpiration im Solarpunk Stiel :)
https://bazn.org/
audio

freesound.org

a classic, but as a reminder: freesound.org exists! if u need a sound for video or music production (or whatever) there might be something in this 700k sounds creative-commons-licenced libary.
https://freesound.org/
reactjs

React Hook Getter Pattern

short article about optimising state in react with a getter-setter pattern. this improves erenders and makes updating the state simpler (from 2021-September-27). generally the articles by Paco Coursey are all a good read!
https://paco.me/writing/hook-getter
js

balloons on your website

I found this small js-package that simply floats some imessage style balloons over the website. It also supports text and emoijs instead of the default balloons.
https://github.com/arturbien/balloons-js

oklch Color Picker

This shows the oklch color in a 3 diagram and also as split sections for lightness, chroma and hue.
https://oklch.com/
map

Mercator Distortion Difference

Small interactive visual to see how the Mercator projection distorts the world view.
https://clemensv.github.io/mercator/
macosapp

Open Ports (mac app)

Free menubar app to list used ports and easily terminate their processes.
https://openports.app/
audio

music for programming .net

A beautiful programming themed website with music for boosting concentration while programming. (Also really nice text animation when transitioning between pages!)
https://musicforprogramming.net/
map

native-land.ca

A worldwide open-contibutions map about the orginal land of indiginous nations, their languages and the treaties with/about them. I think such maps are quite important to not stay in the western worldview.
https://native-land.ca
reactjs

reactbits.dev

Creative Visual React Components: A small library of react components to add some nice visual touches into a react website.
https://reactbits.dev/
css

CSS Clothoid Corners

"Generate clothoid rounded corners by CSS clip-path." — This tool helps to generate a Css clip-path to get nicer rounded corners. There is a squricle in css now, but for me it looks ways harsher than these clothoid shapes.
https://onotakehiko.com/clothoid/