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CEO and co-founder @vizzlo.com. Super proud father. Digging #motorbikes #roadbikes #mountainbikes #dataviz #golang #reactjs #typescript

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Screenshot of some specification document rendered in dark mode. It contains multiple small flow charts explaining differences in Gantt chart task dependency types.

Screenshot of some specification document rendered in dark mode. It contains multiple small flow charts explaining differences in Gantt chart task dependency types.

Pretty sure, @dossie.rs v0.5 with integrated Mermaid.js and svgbob support is going to be a game changer for our spec processβ€”especially for dark mode users.

24.01.2026 11:58 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œAn everything app tries to do everything. An everything ecosystem lets everything get done.” ❀️
Great intro to the Atmosphere ecosystem and at:// protocol.

18.01.2026 20:46 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If computers are the bicycle for the mind, then AI is the automobile. It doesn’t diminish the joy of walking or cyclingβ€”it simply lets you go farther, faster.

08.01.2026 07:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
roblog. Rob Lillack's blog.

Goal for 2026: more posts than last year! 🀞🏻
site: roblillack.net
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07.01.2026 21:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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New in Gantt charts: overlapping tasks can now be layered within the same row. This makes dense timelines easier to read, reduces visual clutter, and keeps your project plan compact, without changing how your data is structured.

07.01.2026 16:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Clicks Communicator might not be for everyone, but it’s definitely for me Clicks might have cut its teeth developing add-on keyboards for various smartphones β€” first iPhone, then Android β€” but its latest announcement appears to be its most promising yet. The Clicks Communicator feels like the first real minimalist device to potentially provide a substantial improvement over your daily driver, even if many of us might feel it’s better as a secondary device rather than a replacement for whatever you already own. more…

The Clicks Communicator might not be for everyone, but it’s definitely for me

07.01.2026 03:03 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

No cheating. Reskeet the most recent picture of your pet(s).

04.01.2026 06:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Unser Stundenplan: A Family Timetable Viewer A web application that displays school schedules from the 'Beste Schule' platform on a kitchen iPad, making it easy for families to see their children's daily timetables at a glance.

Rolling through my holiday task list:
β˜‘οΈ Hit 5000 km cycling for 2025
β˜‘οΈ Eat lots of Thuringian potato dumplings and vegan roulade
β˜‘οΈ Share the kitchen iPad app that's been running our mornings for a year: roblillack.net/unser-stunde...

28.12.2025 11:27 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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My analysis of the leaked #GDPR overhaul proposal. Some changes are great. Some risk decreasing privacy protections.
The changes are very far‑reaching. Tread carefully! Some of the proposals are very risky. techletters.substack.com/p/techletter...
blog.lukaszolejnik.com/european-com...

10.11.2025 06:45 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Finally we can show delicious pie charts in the terminal with Rust! πŸ₯§πŸ¦€

πŸ“Š tui-piechart β€” A customizable pie chart widget for @ratatui.rs

πŸ’― Supports labels, legends, colors & high resolution braille mode for smooth curves

⭐ GitHub: github.com/sorinirimies...

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #dataviz

11.11.2025 08:47 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

This is nice!

11.11.2025 10:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I Accidentally Built a Web Browser For twenty-five years I tinkered with a personal wiki system, an XML parser, and an email client. In 2025 they converged in Rust, and I accidentally built something like a web browser.

Oops, on Halloween I built a browser. πŸ‘»

roblillack.net/i-accidental...

10.11.2025 23:00 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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OpenBSD/arm64 on the Lenovo ThinkPad T14s G6 Following up on my review, this article lists the current status of OpenBSD's support for Lenovo's ARM-powered 2024 ThinkPad T14s (Snapdragon).

Updated my ARM Thinkpad support table for today's OpenBSD 7.8 release. TL;DR: CPU power management supported now; display still in limp mode; network, audio unsupported. roblillack.net/openbsd-arm6...

22.10.2025 05:30 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

"Squeal ite!"

06.10.2025 08:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Book recommendation: EATING ANIMALS by Jonathan Safran Foer.

Book recommendation: EATING ANIMALS by Jonathan Safran Foer.

08.08.2025 18:04 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It took me more than 20 years to learn that SQLite is pronounced as β€œS-Q-L-ite” not β€œS-Q-Lite” 🫣

22.07.2025 07:12 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This is so awesome. 🀯

11.07.2025 13:21 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Paris kΓΌhlt sich wΓ€hrend der Hitzewelle dank der BegrΓΌnung ab Die Vegetalisierung von Paris durch BΓΌrgermeisterin Anne Hidalgo vermag die Temperaturen deutlich zu senken, wie sich vor allem wΓ€hrend der sommerlichen Hitze zeigt

Stadtumbau lohnt sich und Paris zeigt, was geht:

βœ… Beim Ersetzen eines Parkplatzes durch 70 BΓ€ume: Eine gefΓΌhlte Temperatursenkung um 2,5 Grad.

βœ… In einem Pariser Viertel mit 300 Hektar BegrΓΌnung sinkt die Temperatur allein schon deshalb um 0,5-1 Grad.

Rettet Leben, schΓΌtzt Γ–kosysteme.

03.07.2025 06:13 β€” πŸ‘ 371    πŸ” 91    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1
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Katy Cowan | How Online Publishers Can Survive in a Post-Search World It seems ironic that I’m even typing this, but the very thing I’ve deliberately moved away from over the years β€” putting my face to my brand β€” has now become absolutely essential. If Creative Boom...

Wow, we certainly see an increase of traffic from AI sources, but I didn't realize that publishers are already losing ~50% of their organic traffic, due to Chat GPT etc. I guess that's a good thing, because we're talking about SEO filler content?

20.06.2025 11:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

From the README: β€œthis is not a Google product”

06.06.2025 18:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Finally! πŸ“ŠπŸ”’

28.05.2025 12:09 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Four icons in Window's taskbar (Slack, WhatsApp, Todoist, Telegram) each having a different style of notification.

Four icons in Window's taskbar (Slack, WhatsApp, Todoist, Telegram) each having a different style of notification.

Proposal for interview question for a new UI designer at @microsoft.com: "What does an app notification badge look like in Windows 11?"

30.04.2025 05:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot of an extremely colorful Microsoft Store home screen, using up essentially all space for advertising TV streaming and gaming offers with a bit of AI stuff mixed in.

Screenshot of an extremely colorful Microsoft Store home screen, using up essentially all space for advertising TV streaming and gaming offers with a bit of AI stuff mixed in.

And you wonder why the selection of professional software in @microsoft.com's app store is that sparse? This is what the home screen on my "Windows 11 Pro" computer looks like. Why would anyone take that seriously?

17.04.2025 05:21 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
AM Radio

AM Radio

Teach the children why radio buttons are called radio buttons

28.03.2025 20:17 β€” πŸ‘ 418    πŸ” 47    πŸ’¬ 27    πŸ“Œ 4
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The Road Not Taken is Guaranteed Minimum Income The dream is incomplete until we share it with our fellow Americans.

Jeff Atwood’s β€œthe road not taken”: blog.codinghorror.com/the-road-not...

22.03.2025 15:06 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Can You Fool A Self Driving Car?
YouTube video by Mark Rober Can You Fool A Self Driving Car?

Fairerweise muss man dazu sagen, dass in den Tests immer nur der TESLA versagt hat: youtu.be/IQJL3htsDyQ

16.03.2025 19:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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11.03.2025 16:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A 10x Faster TypeScript - TypeScript Embarking on a native port of the existing TypeScript compiler and toolset to achieve a 10x performance speed-up.

Today we're thrilled to announce our effort to port the TypeScript compiler and language service to native code, gaining a 10x speed boost in build times and editor responsiveness!

devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/t...

11.03.2025 14:36 β€” πŸ‘ 975    πŸ” 293    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 156

Finally. πŸ₯°

28.02.2025 06:39 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ‘‹ from the Swift team, now on Bluesky!

21.02.2025 17:46 β€” πŸ‘ 566    πŸ” 110    πŸ’¬ 32    πŸ“Œ 20

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