🧅 I Sell Onions on the Internet: A Southern Success Story
A heartwarming reminder that passion and authenticity often outperform profit-driven motives — a model for meaningful online business in the era of remote work.
Peter Askew shares how buying the domain VidaliaOnions.com turned into a thriving online business selling Georgia’s famous onions directly to customers. Teaming up with local farmer Aries Haygood, he built a trusted brand from a small experiment that grew exponentially. The story celebrates creativity, grit, and authenticity in digital entrepreneurship.
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🧩 Toys with the Highest Play-Time and Lowest Clean-Up-Time
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💬 Mattermost Limits Message History to 10,000: Community Pushback Grows
A telling example of the tension between open-source ideals and commercial realities — the Mattermost community is grappling with how much ‘free’ should actually mean.
After a recent update, users of Mattermost’s open-source edition discovered that messages older than 10,000 are no longer accessible without upgrading. The restriction has frustrated organizations relying on the free version, particularly educational institutions. The change raises questions about how open-source platforms balance community support and monetization.
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🌐 The HTML Elements Time Forgot: A Journey Through Web History
A nostalgic gem for front-end developers — equal parts web archaeology and a testament to how much cleaner and accessible the modern web has become.
Declan Chidlow revisits a set of deprecated HTML tags — from <marquee> to <frameset> — that once defined the early web. He explains their original purpose, why they vanished, and how modern standards emerged in their place. The piece offers both a nostalgic and educational look at how far web design and standards have evolved.
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🚀 Introducing rules_img: Faster Container Builds for Bazel Developers
An elegant optimization that brings Bazel’s efficiency mindset to container workflows — a win for teams juggling large-scale CI/CD pipelines.
Tweag’s new ‘rules_img’ accelerates Bazel’s container image builds by handling metadata first and transferring large data blobs only when necessary. The approach cuts data movement across caches and CI environments, leading to faster, more reproducible builds. It seamlessly integrates with modern registries and remote execution systems, making image creation feel native within Bazel.
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🎁 Gleam v1.14: A Holiday Release Packed with Type-Safe Goodies
A cheerful yet substantial update that proves Gleam’s commitment to developer experience and robust type safety — bridging functional programming communities with finesse.
The Gleam team’s 1.14 release brings compiler improvements, new external type annotations for Erlang and TypeScript, enhanced fault tolerance, and better IDE integration. It strengthens ties with Elixir and expands CLI capabilities, reinforcing Gleam’s goal of seamless interoperability across the BEAM and JavaScript ecosystems.
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⚡ Mastering Swift Concurrency — Without Losing Your Sanity
A refreshingly candid and well-structured guide that makes one of Swift’s toughest topics truly approachable — a must-read for modern iOS developers.
This in-depth guide demystifies advanced Swift concurrency features like `@Sendable`, `AsyncStream`, and `Task.detached`, explaining when and how to use them effectively. It blends practical code examples with clear explanations, helping developers confidently apply async patterns in real-world Swift projects.
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🎄 ssh tiny.christmas: A Command-Line Caroling Adventure
A playful fusion of tech and holiday spirit — proof that creativity thrives even in the command line.
An interactive SSH-based project that lets users ‘sing’ Christmas carols through the command line. Built with Go’s Wish and Bubbletea libraries and enhanced with Unicode Braille graphics, it turns the terminal into a festive stage for collaborative coding joy.
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