So, my journey with window management on macOS continues ..read more

"In shambles"? Really? I'm so tired of this narrative. No state is perfect, but California is hardly "in shambles ..read more

Happy new year! As the new year begins, I find myself re-assessing my workflow and tools ..read more

I spent more than 10 seconds Googling for this and another 20 seconds trying to find it within a single page, so I am sparing myself the agony of this search in the future ..read more

I was watching a Kevin Powell video on CSS the other day and he mentioned that modern browsers (which, unless you're using Internet Explorer or Safari, is every browser, since they're all "evergreen" these days) supported nested CSS rules. (And strictly speaking Safari is "quasi evergreen," since it gets frequent updates, they're just installed in the operating system's updates, not directly via Safari.) I knew how to use nested CSS rules with preprocessors like Sass/SCSS, but had no idea they were supported natively! NICE ..read more

I am using Bluesky a lot more now; add me! I'm @starbuxman.joshlong.com. It's a pretty great experience except that there are no really good macOS desktop applications. And, come ot think of it, the native macOS desktop app for X (formerly called Twitter) just got an update a little while back, but it's hard to use and acts more like an iPhone application than a native app. So, I've wanted suitable desktop experiences for both. None found. Took the easy way out and used a feature common to virtually all browsers which lets me turn a page into a standalone desktop app. Here's how you can do the ..read more

I just stumbled upon a few nice settings in the Settings menu in IntelliJ IDEA and WebStorm. I imagine, but haven't confirmed, that they're also available in other Jetbrains products. These settings make the IDE a bit more, ehm, compact. Let's take a look at them ..read more

I get this question a lot: “I’m learning Java and would love your idea of a roadmap.” In this post, I’ll try to tackle that very question ..read more

Recently, there was a discussion on an email mailing list about how to best prepare for a conference talk. I shared my two cents, which I’ll reprint here ..read more

So, I'm on the new, much-coveted, probably nothing, Bluesky social network. Long story short: in 2019 Twitter spun out a research group to investigate creating a decentralized, distributed protocol for social media, which - one day - Twitter would then become a client of. Here's Jack Dorsey's tweet. Little did anyone know that less than four short years later, Twitter would fall to Elon Musk's predatory hostile takeover and the spinout would end up representing not just an alternate path forward, but one of the only good paths forward, for Twitter users ..read more