Jon George
jg.dev
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."
February 5, 2026 at 9:34 PM
Start the build. Walk to the kitchen. Make coffee. Come back. Green checkmarks. Simple pleasures.
February 5, 2026 at 6:13 PM
LLMs have ruined the em dash
February 5, 2026 at 12:54 PM
The most mass-produced developer delusion is “I should buy the domain now and build it later.”
February 5, 2026 at 12:03 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.
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
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 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