Jon George
@jg.dev
Software developer who still can’t believe the internet actually works
Reposted by Jon George
LOVE THIS! ctan.math.illinois.edu/graphics/pgf... "This package provides an essential feature to LATEX that has been missing for too long.
It adds a coffee stain to your documents. A lot of time can be saved by printing stains directly on the page rather than adding them manually."
It adds a coffee stain to your documents. A lot of time can be saved by printing stains directly on the page rather than adding them manually."
February 5, 2026 at 9:34 PM
LOVE THIS! ctan.math.illinois.edu/graphics/pgf... "This package provides an essential feature to LATEX that has been missing for too long.
It adds a coffee stain to your documents. A lot of time can be saved by printing stains directly on the page rather than adding them manually."
It adds a coffee stain to your documents. A lot of time can be saved by printing stains directly on the page rather than adding them manually."
Start the build. Walk to the kitchen. Make coffee. Come back. Green checkmarks. Simple pleasures.
February 5, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Start the build. Walk to the kitchen. Make coffee. Come back. Green checkmarks. Simple pleasures.
LLMs have ruined the em dash
February 5, 2026 at 12:54 PM
LLMs have ruined the em dash
The most mass-produced developer delusion is “I should buy the domain now and build it later.”
February 5, 2026 at 12:03 PM
The most mass-produced developer delusion is “I should buy the domain now and build it later.”
While cataloging software tools I keep finding products that died quietly. Domain expired, website gone, no trace. Then there's #Voodle. Shut down in 2022. Domain still live in 2026 with the founder's reflection. Photos, lessons, gratitude. Some companies fail and still tell something worth hearing.
What happened to Pixvana / Voodle?
In fall 2015 we made an ”emerging tech” bet on VR and chose a “swing for the fence” scale risk-reward approach. We believed VR would rapidly emerge as a very large-scale industry based on ane…
www.voodle.com
February 4, 2026 at 1:58 PM
While cataloging software tools I keep finding products that died quietly. Domain expired, website gone, no trace. Then there's #Voodle. Shut down in 2022. Domain still live in 2026 with the founder's reflection. Photos, lessons, gratitude. Some companies fail and still tell something worth hearing.
The gap between “I set up SPF, DKIM, and DMARC correctly” and “my email actually reaches an inbox” is where optimism goes to die 😩 #dns
February 4, 2026 at 11:10 AM
The gap between “I set up SPF, DKIM, and DMARC correctly” and “my email actually reaches an inbox” is where optimism goes to die 😩 #dns
The number of hours I’ve spent configuring tools I use to avoid doing the work I opened them to do is not a number I want to calculate.
February 3, 2026 at 12:07 PM
The number of hours I’ve spent configuring tools I use to avoid doing the work I opened them to do is not a number I want to calculate.