Sawyer

New Lithe album and rainy weekend in California. Time to lock in.

Bring this to Mac 🥺

Timberwolves court is the worst

Heads up that this text seems to only visually have spacing but the machine read version is all one line.

Occasional links

I've started a newsletter to stay in touch. If you'd like an occasional roundup with links on frontend, design, and software engineering that I think are worth your time, subscribe: sawyerh.kit.com/subscribe

⇧⌘F tasks are a type of coding I hand off to AI assistants more and more.

☑️ mostly involve finding references
☑️ need little context
☑️ can be described in a few sentences

The action to take is typically straightforward:

• delete obsolete logic
• change a type and all its references, etc

Thank you!

Whoa! Didn’t realize an extension could modify the URL bar like that

Big Instapaper fan.

Added a quick Summarize feature for working my way through all the links shared in the newsletters piling up in my inbox

3.13 release | GSAP | Docs & Learning Thanks to Webflow, GSAP is now 100% FREE including ALL of the bonus plugins! Version 3.13 also brings a complete rewrite of SplitText

The full GSAP animation toolset is now free 👀 gsap.com/blog/3-13

Using an LLM to recommend similar tags to merge

My Pinboard subscription expired so I decided to build my own personal bookmarking tool. Some highlights:

- Web scraping the title and description
- Using an LLM (Claude Haiku) to suggest the tags
- CSS view transitions (spot the ⊕ icon transition?)
- Cloudflare Pages & Functions

This is fascinating. A self-hosted Notion/Gdocs-like service by the French and German governments: docs.numerique.gouv.fr

Congrats!

Building a scrappy semantic search for my reading highlights | Sawyer Hollenshead How I built a semantic search feature for my reading highlights. It turns out you can go surprisingly far with just storing embeddings in a file in S3.

How I built a scrappy semantic search feature for my reading highlights: www.sawyer.soy/blog/semanti...

Using a state machine to manage complex routing logic in form wizards is an idea I had while working on govt. projects. Being able to visualize the branching paths, using what's actually in code, is like having a superpower.

I wrote a bit about the approach: www.sawyer.soy/blog/routing...

Unless a sleeper in the bed snores to the point that there might be a murder, you don't need the 5k version. I swear by the Pod 4 though. Don't need to run the AC/space heater as much. Don't need to argue with my partner about optimum room temp. Don't wake up in a puddle of sweat. Hard going back.

Sender is on east coast: Are you available at //3pm//? Reader is on west coast: Are you available at 12pm PT ?

Still think we need a syntax for time-mentions, similar to @-mentions, for inserting smart times that change depending on the reader's timezone. Someone at Slack please build this.