Henry Bley-Vroman
@olets.dev
UI dev, team lead. DEI & a11y proponent. OSS maintainer. Outrigger paddler. Studied ling, cog sci, neuro. Handle: oh let's. Avatar: bearded white man, shoulder-length hair, sunglasses, hat. Cover: 6 men racing a blue/yellow canoe. Blog https://olets.dev
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Mozilla is shutting down Pocket so it can free up time and resources for cramming more "AI-powered" trash into Firefox www.404media.co/pocket-app-s...
Pocket, One of the Only Apps I Ever Liked, Is Shutting Down
Pocket, the app for saving articles to read later, announced it is shutting down on July 8.
www.404media.co
May 22, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Mozilla is shutting down Pocket so it can free up time and resources for cramming more "AI-powered" trash into Firefox www.404media.co/pocket-app-s...
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It’s 2 am and we’re still marking up massive cuts to Medicaid.
While their constituents are asleep, Republicans are trying to take away health care from 13.7 million people to pay for tax cuts for billionaires.
They want you to tune out. Don’t ⬇️
x.com/i/broadcasts...
While their constituents are asleep, Republicans are trying to take away health care from 13.7 million people to pay for tax cuts for billionaires.
They want you to tune out. Don’t ⬇️
x.com/i/broadcasts...
HAPPENING NOW: Republicans are putting health care on the chopping block / X
HAPPENING NOW: Republicans are putting health care on the chopping block
x.com
May 14, 2025 at 6:31 AM
It’s 2 am and we’re still marking up massive cuts to Medicaid.
While their constituents are asleep, Republicans are trying to take away health care from 13.7 million people to pay for tax cuts for billionaires.
They want you to tune out. Don’t ⬇️
x.com/i/broadcasts...
While their constituents are asleep, Republicans are trying to take away health care from 13.7 million people to pay for tax cuts for billionaires.
They want you to tune out. Don’t ⬇️
x.com/i/broadcasts...
@jsr.io nows shows download counts! Their (non-)handling of the community request for this feature is one of the reasons I'm uninterested in JSR, but it's nice to see. And exciting to learn tailwind-fluid-font-size (tailwindcss-fluid-font-size.olets.dev) has been downloaded from JSR ~6000 times
tailwindcss-fluid-font-size
Fluid font sizes utilities plugin for Tailwind 3.
tailwindcss-fluid-font-size.olets.dev
April 22, 2025 at 3:15 AM
@jsr.io nows shows download counts! Their (non-)handling of the community request for this feature is one of the reasons I'm uninterested in JSR, but it's nice to see. And exciting to learn tailwind-fluid-font-size (tailwindcss-fluid-font-size.olets.dev) has been downloaded from JSR ~6000 times
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Let's all go back:
homestarrunner.com/toons/backto...
homestarrunner.com/toons/backto...
April 17, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Let's all go back:
homestarrunner.com/toons/backto...
homestarrunner.com/toons/backto...
Always interesting to see what public figures look like when not in makeup
This asshole raised prices and ruined your retirement savings, and now he's out golfing for the rest of the weekend.
April 6, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Always interesting to see what public figures look like when not in makeup
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You can't ride zebras. Why? Because they're mean, stripey fucks.
You can't ride tigers. Why? Again, mean stripey fucks.
You can't ride bees. Why? You guessed it, mean stripey fucks.
You can't ride tigers. Why? Again, mean stripey fucks.
You can't ride bees. Why? You guessed it, mean stripey fucks.
April 5, 2025 at 7:41 PM
You can't ride zebras. Why? Because they're mean, stripey fucks.
You can't ride tigers. Why? Again, mean stripey fucks.
You can't ride bees. Why? You guessed it, mean stripey fucks.
You can't ride tigers. Why? Again, mean stripey fucks.
You can't ride bees. Why? You guessed it, mean stripey fucks.
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No one ever said they were creative.
March 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
No one ever said they were creative.
New article: "Picture-in-picture GoPro videos with GPS video overlay"
A write-up of how I use ffmpeg and GPX Animator to create videos with two picture-in-picture overlays.
olets.dev/posts/pictur...
#GoPro #FFMpeg #GPS #OutriggerCanoe
A write-up of how I use ffmpeg and GPX Animator to create videos with two picture-in-picture overlays.
olets.dev/posts/pictur...
#GoPro #FFMpeg #GPS #OutriggerCanoe
Picture-in-picture GoPro videos with GPS video overlay
Scale, overlay, and multiple videos
olets.dev
March 4, 2025 at 1:10 AM
New article: "Picture-in-picture GoPro videos with GPS video overlay"
A write-up of how I use ffmpeg and GPX Animator to create videos with two picture-in-picture overlays.
olets.dev/posts/pictur...
#GoPro #FFMpeg #GPS #OutriggerCanoe
A write-up of how I use ffmpeg and GPX Animator to create videos with two picture-in-picture overlays.
olets.dev/posts/pictur...
#GoPro #FFMpeg #GPS #OutriggerCanoe
Reading Dune, and watching the new movies, it felt like a swirl of unrelated storylines and coincidences that I didn't care about. So I read a bunch of synopses, puzzled it out, and wrote a summary for myself… maybe it'll be helpful to someone else hachyderm.io/@olets/11409...
Henry Bley-Vroman (@olets@hachyderm.io)
Content warning: Spoiler: Dune plot. ¶ Watched Dune, Part II. Amazing effects of course, but the story has never really made sense to me. Reading it in middle school, and watching the new movies, it f...
hachyderm.io
March 2, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Reading Dune, and watching the new movies, it felt like a swirl of unrelated storylines and coincidences that I didn't care about. So I read a bunch of synopses, puzzled it out, and wrote a summary for myself… maybe it'll be helpful to someone else hachyderm.io/@olets/11409...
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New plugin: 11ty/image-color to get colors from an image. Create theme-specific CSS from an image (or even a URL using our IndieWeb avatar service).
GitHub - 11ty/image-color: Small utility to efficiently fetch the colors from an image.
Small utility to efficiently fetch the colors from an image. - 11ty/image-color
github.com
February 27, 2025 at 3:00 PM
New plugin: 11ty/image-color to get colors from an image. Create theme-specific CSS from an image (or even a URL using our IndieWeb avatar service).
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New article: "The command line (mostly Git) abbreviations I rely on"
I use abbreviations (CLI text expansion) to improve my command line experience. Most of these would work well as aliases too.
olets.dev/posts/the-co...
#zsh #FishShell #git #CLI #CommandLine #DX
I use abbreviations (CLI text expansion) to improve my command line experience. Most of these would work well as aliases too.
olets.dev/posts/the-co...
#zsh #FishShell #git #CLI #CommandLine #DX
The command line (mostly Git) abbreviations I rely on
The abbreviations that have saved me countless terminal keystrokes, and the commands to add them to your zsh or fish setup
olets.dev
February 24, 2025 at 8:50 PM
New article: "The command line (mostly Git) abbreviations I rely on"
I use abbreviations (CLI text expansion) to improve my command line experience. Most of these would work well as aliases too.
olets.dev/posts/the-co...
#zsh #FishShell #git #CLI #CommandLine #DX
I use abbreviations (CLI text expansion) to improve my command line experience. Most of these would work well as aliases too.
olets.dev/posts/the-co...
#zsh #FishShell #git #CLI #CommandLine #DX
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<Developer> (shrugs) Works on my machine
<DevOps> Then we'll just ship your machine
<Me> And that, class, is how Docker was born
<DevOps> Then we'll just ship your machine
<Me> And that, class, is how Docker was born
February 22, 2025 at 11:39 AM
<Developer> (shrugs) Works on my machine
<DevOps> Then we'll just ship your machine
<Me> And that, class, is how Docker was born
<DevOps> Then we'll just ship your machine
<Me> And that, class, is how Docker was born
"impacted workers include personnel hired for FAA radar, landing and navigational aid maintenance [and] employees who were fired were working on an urgent and classified early warning radar system … for Hawaii to detect incoming cruise missiles…"
apnews.com/article/doge...
apnews.com/article/doge...
Trump begins firings of FAA air traffic control staff just weeks after fatal DC plane crash
The Trump administration has begun firing several hundred Federal Aviation Administration employees, upending staff on a busy air travel weekend and just weeks after a fatal mid-air collision in Washi...
apnews.com
February 17, 2025 at 10:48 PM
"impacted workers include personnel hired for FAA radar, landing and navigational aid maintenance [and] employees who were fired were working on an urgent and classified early warning radar system … for Hawaii to detect incoming cruise missiles…"
apnews.com/article/doge...
apnews.com/article/doge...
"The Hawaiʻi Green Infrastructure Authority has been locked out of $62 million awarded through the EPA's Solar For All program, which is designed to help low-income households finance rooftop solar.
www.hawaiipublicradio.org/local-news/2...
www.hawaiipublicradio.org/local-news/2...
Trump blocks pipeline of EPA funds to Hawaiʻi environmental justice efforts
Funding freezes across Environmental Protection Agency programs are complicating climate and environmental justice efforts. HPR's Savannah Harriman-Pote looks into how local programs are affected.
www.hawaiipublicradio.org
February 17, 2025 at 12:50 AM
"The Hawaiʻi Green Infrastructure Authority has been locked out of $62 million awarded through the EPA's Solar For All program, which is designed to help low-income households finance rooftop solar.
www.hawaiipublicradio.org/local-news/2...
www.hawaiipublicradio.org/local-news/2...
New zsh tool: zsh-job-queue manages cross-terminal synchronous job queues. I use it to orchestrate repeated destructive file changes across sessions. Check it out if you write zsh software.
zsh-job-queue.olets.dev
#zsh #CommandLine #terminal
zsh-job-queue.olets.dev
#zsh #CommandLine #terminal
zsh-job-queue
Global (cross-terminal) synchronous job queues for zsh.
zsh-job-queue.olets.dev
February 15, 2025 at 10:37 PM
New zsh tool: zsh-job-queue manages cross-terminal synchronous job queues. I use it to orchestrate repeated destructive file changes across sessions. Check it out if you write zsh software.
zsh-job-queue.olets.dev
#zsh #CommandLine #terminal
zsh-job-queue.olets.dev
#zsh #CommandLine #terminal
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Woohoo, Anchor Positioning will be part of Interop 2025 github.com/web-platform...
CSS Anchor Positioning · Issue #752 · web-platform-tests/interop
Description The CSS anchor positioning API allows for elements to be positioned relative to one or more "anchor" elements (rather than relative to a containing block). This is done by evaluating th...
github.com
February 13, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Woohoo, Anchor Positioning will be part of Interop 2025 github.com/web-platform...
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First looks: <is-land> v5.0.0 Beta 2
Broadened browser support
Passive event listeners
Rename attribute prefixes
New Import Maps examples
Supports: Petite Vue, Vue, Svelte, Solid, Lit, Preact, and Alpine.js
Broadened browser support
Passive event listeners
Rename attribute prefixes
New Import Maps examples
Supports: Petite Vue, Vue, Svelte, Solid, Lit, Preact, and Alpine.js
Release is-land v5.0.0-beta.2 · 11ty/is-land
Compressed file size: v4.0.0 at 1.61 kB to v5.0.0 at 1.79 kB Broadens browser support (thank you @vanarok in #21) and adds (cut the mustard-style) feature test: v5.0.0 supports Chrome 54, Firefox ...
github.com
February 13, 2025 at 9:29 PM
First looks: <is-land> v5.0.0 Beta 2
Broadened browser support
Passive event listeners
Rename attribute prefixes
New Import Maps examples
Supports: Petite Vue, Vue, Svelte, Solid, Lit, Preact, and Alpine.js
Broadened browser support
Passive event listeners
Rename attribute prefixes
New Import Maps examples
Supports: Petite Vue, Vue, Svelte, Solid, Lit, Preact, and Alpine.js
Command Execution Timer is a zsh plugin for timing, working with, and displaying the time interactive shell (aka command line) commands takes to execute.
command-execution-timer.olets.dev
#zsh #shell #CommandLine #terminal #DX #DevTools
command-execution-timer.olets.dev
#zsh #shell #CommandLine #terminal #DX #DevTools
Command Execution Timer
A zsh plugin for timing, working with, and displaying the time an interactive shell command takes to execute.
command-execution-timer.olets.dev
February 11, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Command Execution Timer is a zsh plugin for timing, working with, and displaying the time interactive shell (aka command line) commands takes to execute.
command-execution-timer.olets.dev
#zsh #shell #CommandLine #terminal #DX #DevTools
command-execution-timer.olets.dev
#zsh #shell #CommandLine #terminal #DX #DevTools
Released a new major version of my zsh theme, Hometown Prompt. v4.0.0 adds scheduled refresh (the prompt content can update every x seconds) and transient prompt (the prompt trims down to just the essentials after you hit Enter)
hometown-prompt.olets.dev
#zsh #shell #CommandLine #prompt #ZshTheme
hometown-prompt.olets.dev
#zsh #shell #CommandLine #prompt #ZshTheme
Hometown Prompt
A fast, dynamic, highly configurable Git-focused zsh theme
hometown-prompt.olets.dev
February 6, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Released a new major version of my zsh theme, Hometown Prompt. v4.0.0 adds scheduled refresh (the prompt content can update every x seconds) and transient prompt (the prompt trims down to just the essentials after you hit Enter)
hometown-prompt.olets.dev
#zsh #shell #CommandLine #prompt #ZshTheme
hometown-prompt.olets.dev
#zsh #shell #CommandLine #prompt #ZshTheme
Got a scam text "from" the Massachusetts Department of Transportation.
> Your vehicle has an unpaid toll invoice, and to avoid excessive late fees on your bill
Watch out for `ezdrivema.com-something.tld` URLs!
www.mass.gov/news/massdot...
> Your vehicle has an unpaid toll invoice, and to avoid excessive late fees on your bill
Watch out for `ezdrivema.com-something.tld` URLs!
www.mass.gov/news/massdot...
www.mass.gov
February 5, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Got a scam text "from" the Massachusetts Department of Transportation.
> Your vehicle has an unpaid toll invoice, and to avoid excessive late fees on your bill
Watch out for `ezdrivema.com-something.tld` URLs!
www.mass.gov/news/massdot...
> Your vehicle has an unpaid toll invoice, and to avoid excessive late fees on your bill
Watch out for `ezdrivema.com-something.tld` URLs!
www.mass.gov/news/massdot...
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I wrote this simple SDK to manage @craftcms.com Commerce in headless mode, covering everything from customer registration to complete payment and more.
github.com/DidoMarchet/...
If you have a little time to check it out and let me know if you find it useful or not, I’d really appreciate!🙏🚀
github.com/DidoMarchet/...
If you have a little time to check it out and let me know if you find it useful or not, I’d really appreciate!🙏🚀
GitHub - DidoMarchet/craft-commerce-headless-sdk: Craft Commerce Headless SDK provides tools to integrate Craft Commerce in headless environments, focusing on building API-driven checkout experiences.
Craft Commerce Headless SDK provides tools to integrate Craft Commerce in headless environments, focusing on building API-driven checkout experiences. - DidoMarchet/craft-commerce-headless-sdk
github.com
January 31, 2025 at 9:01 PM
I wrote this simple SDK to manage @craftcms.com Commerce in headless mode, covering everything from customer registration to complete payment and more.
github.com/DidoMarchet/...
If you have a little time to check it out and let me know if you find it useful or not, I’d really appreciate!🙏🚀
github.com/DidoMarchet/...
If you have a little time to check it out and let me know if you find it useful or not, I’d really appreciate!🙏🚀
Reposted by Henry Bley-Vroman
OpenAI says it has proof that Deepseek used its work without permission to create something meant to undermine and destroy its product.
On behalf of all the authors whose novels and stories were taken as training data, oh no that must be so hard for you.
On behalf of all the authors whose novels and stories were taken as training data, oh no that must be so hard for you.
January 29, 2025 at 4:04 PM
OpenAI says it has proof that Deepseek used its work without permission to create something meant to undermine and destroy its product.
On behalf of all the authors whose novels and stories were taken as training data, oh no that must be so hard for you.
On behalf of all the authors whose novels and stories were taken as training data, oh no that must be so hard for you.
Released a new zsh plugin: zsh-transient-prompt
It makes it easy to add a transient prompt to your zsh theme. That is, to have one prompt for the current line and a different prompt for past lines in your terminal window.
zsh-transient-prompt.olets.dev
#zsh #CommandLine #terminal #prompt
It makes it easy to add a transient prompt to your zsh theme. That is, to have one prompt for the current line and a different prompt for past lines in your terminal window.
zsh-transient-prompt.olets.dev
#zsh #CommandLine #terminal #prompt
zsh-transient-prompt
Add a transient prompt to your zsh command line
zsh-transient-prompt.olets.dev
January 29, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Released a new zsh plugin: zsh-transient-prompt
It makes it easy to add a transient prompt to your zsh theme. That is, to have one prompt for the current line and a different prompt for past lines in your terminal window.
zsh-transient-prompt.olets.dev
#zsh #CommandLine #terminal #prompt
It makes it easy to add a transient prompt to your zsh theme. That is, to have one prompt for the current line and a different prompt for past lines in your terminal window.
zsh-transient-prompt.olets.dev
#zsh #CommandLine #terminal #prompt