Quick updates: short notes, TILs, and good links.https://ngockhoi96.deven-UShttps://github.com/rtk-ai/rtkhttps://github.com/rtk-ai/rtk<!-- LEDE (always shown, 2–3 sentences): what RTK is + the transparent-hook trick (a PreToolUse hook silently rewrites every shell command, 0 overhead) + the one number (34% measured / git diff 49%). -- RTK (Rust Token Killer) is a CLI proxy that compresses the output of your de…Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTaiclaudeworkflowhttps://ngockhoi96.dev/stream/#colonyhttps://ngockhoi96.dev/stream/#colony<!-- LEDE (always shown, 2–3 sentences): Yeon Sang-ho (Train to Busan, 2016) is back with Colony (군체, 2026). The one-line hook: these zombies aren't a dumb mob — they share one mind over a mycelium network and learn from every failed attack. Saw it this afternoon; quick verdict…Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTfilmreviewlifehttps://astro.build/blog/astro-7/https://astro.build/blog/astro-7/Astro 7 shipped, and it's an all-out Rust speed pass — 15–61% faster builds. The headline bits, quickly, then where I land for this site. <!--more-- What's new (short version — full details in the post): - Rust .astro compiler (built on oxc + Lightning CSS, drops the old Go one)…Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTastroweb-devbuild-toolshttps://matklad.github.io/2026/06/04/css-unavoidable-bad-parts.htmlhttps://matklad.github.io/2026/06/04/css-unavoidable-bad-parts.htmlmatklad catalogues CSS's traps — too many wrapper divs, inconsistent browser defaults, box-sizing, line-height "voodoo", words that won't break on mobile. A cu em dropped it in Discord and the title hooked me. But read past the grumbling and it's the opposite of a CSS hit-piece:…Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTcssweb-platformsemantic-htmlhttps://ngockhoi96.dev/stream/#badge-tag-chip-pillhttps://ngockhoi96.dev/stream/#badge-tag-chip-pillA quick reference I keep needing: badge vs tag vs chip vs pill. Every UI library defines them differently — which is exactly why people argue about it. So here's the fast version, then the model I actually shipped on this site. <!--more-- How the big libraries use the words - Ba…Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTtildesign-systemuicsshttps://arealisticdreamer.com/claude-code-status-linehttps://arealisticdreamer.com/claude-code-status-lineA thin strip at the bottom of the Claude Code frame, driven by a shell script you own. Replaces the habit of manually checking which model you're on, how much context is left, or whether you're close to a rate limit — all things that "carry heavy decision weight" mid-session wit…Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTclaudeworkflowtoolshttps://github.com/mattpocock/skills/blob/main/skills/productivity/handoff/SKILL.mdhttps://github.com/mattpocock/skills/blob/main/skills/productivity/handoff/SKILL.mdMatt Pocock's skill: at the end of a heavy session — a /grill-with-docs planning pass, a brainstorm, a full task breakdown — ask Claude to /handoff. It compacts the whole conversation into a structured markdown doc a fresh agent can pick up cold. <!--more-- The workflow: Opus 4.…Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTaiclaudeworkflowhttps://ngockhoi96.dev/stream/#nana-card-gamehttps://ngockhoi96.dev/stream/#nana-card-gameI went hunting for a board/card game to train memory, quick thinking, and pattern-spotting — something to play with friends, family, and my partner — and landed on Nana, 2nd edition (2–5 players). The cute, friendly art reeled me in; a skim of the rules ("flip cards, match three…Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTlifeboard-gamememoryhttps://ngockhoi96.dev/stream/#git-bisecthttps://ngockhoi96.dev/stream/#git-bisectEnd-of-day check on develop: the site had lost nearly all its styles — CSS variables referenced across every component, defined nowhere. Staging was fine (QA still in progress, so: relief). TIF — Today I Failed to fix it before 9 pm. But also TIL: git bisect. <!--more-- The envi…Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTtifgitdebugginghttps://ngockhoi96.dev/stream/#fitts-lawhttps://ngockhoi96.dev/stream/#fitts-lawCame up while designing this blog's post-card vs term-card split: Fitts's Law — movement time to a target scales with the log of its distance-over-width ratio: MT = a + b · log₂(2D/W). The wider the target, the faster you hit it. <!--more-- D is distance to the target centre, W…Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTtiluxpsychologyhttps://f8.edu.vn/https://f8.edu.vn/F8 ("Learn to code, get a job", by Sơn Đặng) — completely free web courses: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, all the way to ReactJS. Over three years ago, someone with no CS degree like me stepped into the field right here. Genuinely grateful — leaving it here for anyone standing at the s…Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTlearningwebvietnamhttps://ngockhoi96.dev/stream/#hicks-lawhttps://ngockhoi96.dev/stream/#hicks-lawDigging into the principle behind the Slack note: Hick's Law (Hick–Hyman) — decision time grows with the log of the number of choices: RT = a + b·log₂(n + 1). It's why a 60-row dropdown makes you stall while 4 slots get picked instantly — it trims cognitive load. <!--more-- a is…Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTtiluxpsychologyhttps://github.com/mattpocock/skills/blob/main/skills/engineering/grill-with-docs/SKILL.mdhttps://github.com/mattpocock/skills/blob/main/skills/engineering/grill-with-docs/SKILL.mdMatt Pocock's skill: it interviews you one question at a time to pressure-test a plan against the existing domain model, sharpens terminology, and updates CONTEXT.md (the glossary) + ADRs the moment a decision lands. <!--more-- The stream, the lexicon, the Collapsible primitive……Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTclaudearchitectureworkflowhttps://github.com/multica-ai/andrej-karpathy-skillshttps://github.com/multica-ai/andrej-karpathy-skillsGuidelines for Claude Code, distilled from Andrej Karpathy's observations: LLMs tend to guess assumptions and over-engineer. Four principles: think before coding, simplicity first, surgical changes, goal-driven. <!--more-- Simplicity First keeps me from over-engineering — build…Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTaiclaudeworkflowhttps://ngockhoi96.dev/stream/#slack-15-minute-schedulehttps://ngockhoi96.dev/stream/#slack-15-minute-scheduleScheduling a Slack message the other day, I noticed the time picker only offers 15-minute slots — 9:00, 9:15, 9:30, no 9:07. Curious, I dug into the API and found the fun part: chat.scheduleMessage takes postat as a Unix timestamp — precise to the second. The backend can happily…Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTtiluxsystem-designslackhttps://vite.dev/blog/cloudflare-supports-vitehttps://vite.dev/blog/cloudflare-supports-viteVoidZero (the company behind Vite) is joining Cloudflare, with a $1M fund for the Vite ecosystem. Vite stays MIT, vendor-agnostic, team-governed. Next up: Full Bundle Mode + stabilizing the Environment API in Vite 9. This touches the blog on both layers: Astro is built on Vite (…Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTvitecloudflareopen-source