Links from 2014

<blockquote>This is what he believes it would take to refashion the progressive mindset: the abandonment of argument by evidence in favour of argument by moral cause; the unswerving and unembarrassed articulation of what those morals are; the acceptance that there is no "middle" or third way, no such thing as a moderate (people can hold divergent views, conservative on some things, progressive on others – but they are not moderates, they are "biconceptual"); and the understanding that conservatives are not evil, unintelligent, cynical or grasping. Rather, they act according to the moral case as they see it. If they happen to get rich, and make their friends rich in the process, that is just the unbidden consequence of wealth being the natural reward of the righteous, in their moral universe. </blockquote>

<blockquote>There may certainly be things you'd find more fulfilling. But if you need to do stuff to be happy, you are letting yourself suffer from attachments to things that more the most part are relatively inconsequential.

PG's essay suffers from this assumption that happiness is tied to achievements.

I used to think that too. The problem with that line of thinking is that it often leads to putting the shutters on and focusing on getting stuff done to get your happiness from it eventually, while ignoring all the sources of happiness around you. Further, that makes procrastination worse, in my experience: It creates guilt that you're picking the short term pleasures instead of doing the stuff you're sure will make you fabulously happy later, once you've just achieved something.

These days, I still get stuff done - more than ever, in fact -, but I might suddenly stop during my commute and look up at the clouds and enjoy the sight, or just close my eyes for 10 seconds and enjoy the calm, and I'm happy whether or not I'm doing anything. The two are not related. If you can't be happy even while doing the dishes, or fighting your way onto a commuter train, or carrying out some mind-numbingly boring menial work, you're missing out.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Hierarchical node.js configuration with files, environment variables, command-line arguments, and atomic object merging</blockquote>

<blockquote>Reads a JSON file and generates a static folder structure that matches the JSON to allow data end points for simple apps without a server</blockquote>

Options.

<blockquote>You might think of it this way: with box-sizing: border-box the padding and border press their way inside the box rather than expand the box. The result is a box the exact width you set it to be and can count on.</blockquote>

Where have you been all my life.

<blockquote>Guide your users through a tour of your app.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Postcard club is for people who like to send and receive postcards.</blockquote>

Dr. Mike is an interweb health hero.

...the definitive listing of.

Spend money on tools, basically.

git pull has two problems:

* It merges upstream changes by default, when it's really more polite to rebase over them, unless your collaborators enjoy a commit graph that looks like bedhead. * It only updates the branch you're currently on, which means git push will shout at you for being behind on branches you don't particularly care about right now.

<blockquote>Combines multiple API documentations in a fast, organized, and searchable interface.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Sleep, it turns out, may play a crucial role in our brain’s physiological maintenance. As your body sleeps, your brain is quite actively playing the part of mental janitor: It’s clearing out all of the junk that has accumulated as a result of your daily thinking.</blockquote>

<blockquote>The Node environment seems to have shifted from "use this for your one-off, high performance, I/O dominated real time service" to "hey, you know Javascript, build all your webapps in node, build your command line tools in node, build everything in node, since it's the lingua franca of the web." This latter trend sucks, and results in things that to me seem absolutely bonkers, like the Vows test framework.</blockquote>

<blockquote>A portable tool for managing a single set of dotfiles in an organized fashion</blockquote>

<blockquote>M*EAN (*MySQL, Express, Angular, Node) - A Simple, Scalable and Easy starting point for javascript web development with a relational database ORM</blockquote>