It's funny how common round UI elements have become. Round avatars are widespread, and Android is moving to round app icons.
It's especially odd when so many UIs are built on a grid. You necessarily waste space with circles.
Are they more ergonomic for fingers, somehow?
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Terminad is a really interesting approach to rendering markdown in the CLI. It deliberately doesn't render links, so you can always see both the link text and the URL.
In a browser you have hover to see URLs, but not necessarily in a terminal.
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Heapless is a neat Rust library that provides versions of data structures like Vec that don't use the heap. It's a familiar API, but some are necessarily different (e.g. Vec::push returns a result)
https://japaric.github.io/heapless/heapless/index.html
Thoughtful longform analysis of the different video on demand services, and how they aren't necessarily competitors: they have very different approaches and goals.
