Marty McGuire

Marty Likes Things (Sometimes)

2024
Tue Jul 30
★ Liked https://crawlspace.cool/
★ Liked https://www.citationneeded.news/when-did-cryptocurrency-become-a-voter-issue/
Mon Jul 29
★ Liked https://www.wheresyoured.at/to-serve-altman/
★ Liked https://tailscale.com/blog/new-internet
★ Liked https://www.eatmy.art/
Sun Jul 28
★ Liked https://front-end.social/@sarajw/112796251376901032
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@KevinMarks @keenan @marty Feel free! @mattwilcox has already done one - but that doesn't mean others can't!https://mstdn.social/@mattwilcox/112796163006311657
Fri Jul 26
★ Liked https://kizu.dev/fit-to-width/
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Registered custom properties are now available in all modern browsers. Using some pre-existing techniques based on them and complex container query length units, I solved a years-long problem of fitting text to the width of a container, hopefully paving the path towards a proper …
Thu Jul 25
★ Liked https://adhdftw.com/the-ideal-workspace/
★ Liked https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=squarespace-domain-hijacking
★ Liked https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-62/
★ Liked https://www.jacky.wtf/essays/2024/the-hunt-driving-me-mad/
post from The Job Hunt is Driving me Mad
I've been looking for work since the layoffs at Code for America last September. Even when I briefly secured a role at
★ Liked https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/9945-Updates
post from Updates
I got back from Denver very late last night, and boy were my arms tired. And legs. And body.Lesson learned: if you have the option to take a much earlier flight and it only costs $50, take it. That is much better than wandering around the Denver airport for 8 hours. Or, failing …
★ Liked https://jordaneldredge.com/notes/corrupted-skins/
Wed Jul 24
★ Liked https://werd.io/2024/the-moral-bankruptcy-of-marc-andreessen-and-ben-horowitz
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[Elizabeth Lopatto at The Verge]"Last week, the founders of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz declared their allegiance to Donald Trump in their customary fashion: talking about money on a podcast.“Sorry, Mom,” Ben Horowitz says in an episode of The Ben & Marc Show. “I …
Tue Jul 23
★ Liked https://frontendmasters.com/blog/clip-pathing-color-changes/
Mon Jul 22
★ Liked https://xeiaso.net/notes/2024/flying-home-crowdstroke/
★ Liked https://chriscoyier.net/2024/07/22/practical-svg-is-now-free-to-read-online/
★ Liked https://werd.io/2024/after-years-of-uncertainty-google-says-it-wont-be-deprecating
post from After years of uncertainty, Google says it won't be 'deprecating third-party cookies' in Chrome - Digiday
[Kayleigh Barber and Seb Joseph at Digiday]"After much back and forth, Google has decided to keep third-party cookies in its Chrome browser. Turns out all the fuss over the years wasn’t in vain after all; the ad industry’s cries have finally been heard."Advertisers are rejoicing. …
★ Liked https://harihareswara.net/posts/2024/things-i-wish-id-done-before-catching-covid/
Sun Jul 21
★ Liked https://soatok.blog/2024/07/21/my-furry-blog-has-lasted-longer-than-the-confederacy/
post My Furry Blog Has Lasted Longer Than the Confederacy
My inaugural blog post went live on April 21, 2020. This post is scheduled to go live on Sunday, July 21, 2024.
★ Liked https://fogknife.com/2024-07-21-why-i-left-google.html
post from Why I left Google
How I became the focus of a mass ritual against generative AI, and what I did about it.
Sat Jul 20
★ Liked https://xeiaso.net/talks/2024/consentual-marketing/
Fri Jul 19
★ Liked https://the.ink/p/you-should-say-true-things
★ Liked https://www.wheresyoured.at/crowdstruck-2/
★ Liked https://xeiaso.net/shitposts/no-way-to-prevent-this/OVE-20240719-0001/
★ Liked https://whatisawridingmybikearoundtoday.com/2024/07/18/construction-and-a-tree-on-caroline-between-pratt-gough/
Thu Jul 18
★ Liked https://heatherburns.tech/2024/07/17/how-labour-already-fixed-the-biggest-policy-problem-in-tech/
post How Labour already fixed the biggest policy problem in tech
There is so much to say about what has taken place over the past eight weeks in the UK. I’d probably find it easier to write about those things if I wasn’t just taking the time to enjoy the feeling of fourteen years of stress evaporating off of my shoulders. Seriously, I’ve been …
★ Liked https://werd.io/2024/the-silicon-valley-vice-president
post from The Silicon Valley Would-Be Vice President
JD Vance is an obvious, bald-faced opportunist. It makes sense that Trump would pick him as his Vice Presidential candidate; they probably understand each other quite well.It can’t have hurt that a bevy of tech billionaires told Trump to pick him, and it’s not unreasonable to …
Wed Jul 17
★ Liked https://www.wheresyoured.at/put-up-or-shut-up/
★ Liked https://bruces.medium.com/the-wonderful-power-of-storytelling-by-bruce-sterling-1991-9d2846c2c5df