Scott Andrew

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Posted February 27, 2025.

Pocket Lint: February retrospective edition

How Core Git Developers Configure Git. Like a lot of folks I learned Git on the job and just the bare minimum to get the job done, so a lot of these cool options went undiscovered. I'm definitely adding a few of these things to my personal Git setup.

AI is Stifling Tech Adoption. All coding assistants have a starting prompt, and that prompt can be biased toward "proven" technologies like React and Tailwind.

Interop 2025 Dashboard. "Interop 2025 is a cross-browser effort to improve the interoperability of the web." Sucks to see my favored browsers lagging so far behind Chrome.

I'm glad I took the off-ramp from software engineering. I see a lot of echoes of my own career here. The industry changes fast and at some point you're competing with younger folks with more time, energy, and willingness to work for less money.

6 CSS Snippets Every Front-End Developer Should Know In 2025. I'm not sure if I agree, but it's interesting stuff.

Clippy: CSS clip-path maker. Thinking might be cool to create Comixology-style "guided view" for web comics. I already have too many ideas.

Easing Wizard: CSS easing functions made easy.

Grind 75. A curated list of 75 leetcode questions that cover basic tech interview patterns. I really don't get the continuing obsession with leetcode in a world of AI coding assistants and snapped-together cloud services.

The Visible Zorker. Game design legend Andrew Plotkin wrote an app that is a version of Zork that reveals the original Infocom source code *as you play the game.Which reminds me: the text adventure game I dreamed up when I was 14 and started rewriting in 2022 using Inform7 has been sitting around waiting for me to finish the last 10%. I should set a deadline and get that done!

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