Stefan Bauckmeier — Blog & shared links

Shared links — week of 13 July 2026

2026-07-16T10:01:05.828Z

Stop saying that AI is just a tool and it only matters how it is used (frank.computer)
ajnisbet/opentopodata — Open alternative to the Google Elevation API! (github.com)
What will be left for us to work on? (normaltech.ai)
(comic) Premature optimization (workchronicles.com)
A full body MRI earns you a year of smoking (entropicthoughts.com)
duongductrong/Snapzy — An open-source native macOS screenshot and screen recording app. A CleanShot X alternative. (github.com)
What's new in ECMAScript 2026 (pawelgrzybek.com)

Shared links — week of 6 July 2026

2026-07-10T11:57:07.034Z

Different hydration and rendering strategies (Next.js) (neciudan.dev)
agarrharr/awesome-macos-screensavers — 🍎 🖥 🎆 A curated list of screensavers for Mac OS X (github.com)
Announcing TypeScript 7.0 (devblogs.microsoft.com)
charmbracelet/crush — Glamourous agentic coding for all 💘 (github.com)
steipete/CodexBar — Show usage stats for OpenAI Codex and Claude Code, without having to login. (github.com)
kyutai-labs/pocket-tts — A TTS that fits in your CPU (and pocket) (github.com)
odysseus-dev/odysseus — Self-hosted AI workspace. (github.com)
(comic) Range of emotions — Feels like this is the exact feeling which I miss in my today work life since AI got into my work (workchronicles.com)
Regression to the Mean — On LLMs and the Quiet Death of the New (rruxandra.github.io)
Safe human-friendly multi-agent setup (norswap.com)

Notes on the relaunch stack

2026-07-08T00:00:00.000Z

Why this site is built with Eleventy and plain CSS.

Shared links — week of 29 June 2026

2026-07-03T12:16:10.032Z

Holes (xkcd.com)
Expensive Stuff (savagechickens.com)
stablyai/orca — Orca is the ADE for working with a fleet of parallel agents. Run any coding agent with your own subscription. Available on desktop, mobile and VPS. (github.com)
(comic) Lowering attrition (workchronicles.com)

Hello again, world

2026-07-01T00:00:00.000Z

Relaunching emrox.de as a fully static site.

Shared links — week of 22 June 2026

2026-06-27T10:32:39.000Z

dosbox-staging/dosbox-staging — DOSBox Staging is a modern continuation of DOSBox with advanced features and current development practices. (github.com)
Happy Place — that's me in this comic! (savagechickens.com)
The worthlessness of vitamin D is mildly exaggerated (dynomight.net)
Making A Difference (savagechickens.com)
Jeffallan/claude-skills — 66 Specialized Skills for Full-Stack Developers. Transform Claude Code into your expert pair programmer. (github.com)
mattpocock/skills — Skills for Real Engineers. Straight from my .agents directory. (github.com)
window.showDirectoryPicker opens up a whole new world (steveharrison.dev)

Shared links — week of 15 June 2026

2026-06-19T12:09:15.032Z

Announcing TypeScript 7.0 RC (devblogs.microsoft.com)
Drowning Doesn't Look Like Drowning (gcaptain.com)
(comic) Adding more people to a project (workchronicles.com)
(comic) How to save the project (workchronicles.com)
Mechanical Watch (ciechanow.ski)
DietrichGebert/ponytail — Makes your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room. The best code is the code you never wrote. (github.com)
Your EPUB Is Fine. Kobo Disagrees. Blame Adobe (andreklein.net)

Shared links — week of 8 June 2026

2026-06-14T18:44:17.671Z

“Don’t You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?” (correresmidestino.com)
steinbergmedia/vstgui — A user interface toolkit mainly for audio plug-ins (github.com)
software-mansion/argent — An agentic toolkit to control, debug, and profile iOS and Android apps. Made by Software Mansion. (github.com)
UI Skills for Design Engineers | Curated Skill Directory (ui-skills.com)
AllThingsSmitty/typescript-tips-everyone-should-know — ✅ A collection of practical TypeScript patterns that improve safety, readability, maintainability, and developer experience. 🧠 (github.com)

Shared links — week of 25 May 2026

2026-05-30T19:36:51.956Z

Voxel Space (s-macke.github.io)
HeidiSQL/HeidiSQL — A lightweight client for managing MariaDB, MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Interbase and Firebird, written in Delphi and Lazarus/FreePascal (github.com)
Component Architecture for React Server Components (aurorascharff.no)
Beyond the Prompt: Claude Code (arps18.github.io)
CSS vs. JavaScript (joshwcomeau.com)
From Rust to Ruby (xlii.space)
tomhayes/BEMoji (github.com)
BEMoji — The Emoji-First CSS Framework (tomhayes.github.io)
Agentic Patterns — Veso Research (veso.ai)
Jira IS Turing-Complete (seriot.ch)
Why Do We Sleep Under Blankets, Even on the Hottest Nights? (atlasobscura.com)

Shared links — week of 18 May 2026

2026-05-22T13:36:17.000Z

nkzw-tech/fate — fate is a modern data client for React. (github.com)
haydenbleasel/files-sdk — A unified storage SDK for object and blob backends. One small, honest API. Web-standards I/O. (github.com)
Abuse of Notation - writings on math, logic, philosophy and art (abuseofnotation.github.io)
anl331/goey-toast — A gooey, morphing toast component built on Sonner with Framer Motion animations (github.com)
joseph/mud — Mud. A perfect markdown viewer for macOS. (github.com)

Shared links — week of 11 May 2026

2026-05-12T12:47:21.226Z

The Noisy Room (thenoisyroom.com)
componade/calendarjs — Lightweight date picker, event scheduler, and timeline components for JavaScript. Works with React, Vue, and Angular. Free and open source. (github.com)

Shared links — week of 4 May 2026

2026-05-07T13:15:16.724Z

Three-Em Dash (compart.com)
stonerl/Thaw — Menu bar manager for macOS 26 (github.com)
You’re probably taking the wrong painkiller (dynomight.net)
dadamachines/ctag-tbd — A Fork of CTAG TBD (ESP32 audio DSP platform) with many changes and lots of UI/UX + docs changes for the dadamachines TBD‑16. (github.com)
(comic) The OKR Trap (workchronicles.com)
Cognitive Surrender (addyosmani.com)
ace-step/ACE-Step-1.5 — The most powerful local music generation model that outperforms almost all commercial alternatives, supporting Mac, AMD, Intel, and CUDA devices. (github.com)
Why are the Artemis II photos on Flickr? - Anil Dash (anildash.com)
Top 20 Fiction to Inspire Climate Action - The Books List (thebookslist.com)
Talking to 35 Strangers at the Gym (thienantran.com)

Shared links — week of 27 April 2026

2026-04-30T12:00:36.000Z

felipefdl/warm-burnout — Mostly warm, WCAG-audited color theme suite with one cool type accent. For developers who are already burned out but still have deadlines. (github.com)
(comic) The estimate game (workchronicles.com)
AI & Alignment (chriscoyier.net)
Notepad++ for Mac: Free Native macOS Code Editor (notepad-plus-plus-mac.org)

Shared links — week of 20 April 2026

2026-04-24T14:49:11.000Z

AndrewVos/endless-toil — Hear your agent suffer through your code (github.com)
The end of responsive images (piccalil.li)
yjs/yjs — Shared data types for building collaborative software (github.com)
Anurella/reset-css — A collection of styles that reset the styles of certain elements in the browser (github.com)
chenglou/pretext — Fast, accurate & comprehensive text measurement & layout (github.com)
The Boy That Cried Mythos: Verification is Collapsing Trust in Anthropic (flyingpenguin.com)
Announcing TypeScript 7.0 Beta (devblogs.microsoft.com)
Drunk Post: Things I’ve Learned as a Senior Engineer (luminousmen.substack.com)
The Bag of Tricks for View Transitions (vtbag.dev)

Shared links — week of 13 April 2026

2026-04-18T19:51:35.521Z

Fructose: metabolic signal and modern hazard (nature.com)
mui/base-ui — Unstyled UI components for building accessible web apps and design systems. From the creators of Radix, Floating UI, and Material UI. (github.com)
quemsah/awesome-claude-plugins — Automated collection of Claude Code plugin adoption metrics across GitHub repositories using n8n workflows (github.com)
nilbuild/slim — Give your localhost a local or public URL (github.com)
addyosmani/agent-skills — Production-grade engineering skills for AI coding agents. (github.com)

Shared links — week of 6 April 2026

2026-04-12T19:29:41.174Z

The Physics Of GPS | An Interactive Exploration (perthirtysix.com)
jaywcjlove/awesome-mac —  This project is dedicated to collecting high-quality macOS software and organizing them systematically by different categories for easy search and use. (github.com)
zhw2590582/ArtPlayer — :art: ArtPlayer.js is a modern and full featured HTML5 video player (github.com)
luongnv89/claude-howto — A visual, example-driven guide to Claude Code — from basic concepts to advanced agents, with copy-paste templates that bring immediate value. (github.com)

Shared links — week of 23 March 2026

2026-03-24T08:14:39.246Z

Morale (savagechickens.com)
Announcing TypeScript 6.0 - TypeScript (devblogs.microsoft.com)

Shared links — week of 16 March 2026

2026-03-19T15:26:15.457Z

Comprehension Debt — the hidden cost of AI generated code. (addyosmani.com)
Pikimov, free motion and video app, now $6 standalone for Mac and Windows (cdm.link)
rzru/nightingale — Machine learning powered Karaoke app (with scores!) (github.com)
The best demos of 2025 from the demoscene (laurent.le-brun.eu)

Shared links — week of 9 March 2026

2026-03-13T07:44:11.361Z

The Productivity Paradox: Why Technology Makes the Economy More Efficient But Most People No Richer (fullstackpm.tech)
I Have 30 Years of Career Left. AI Made Me Rethink All of Them. (newsletter.thelongcommit.com)
(comic) Work on Your Emotional Intelligence (workchronicles.com)
Announcing TypeScript 6.0 RC (devblogs.microsoft.com)

Shared links — week of 2 March 2026

2026-03-04T12:47:18.815Z

Laws of UX (userinterface.wiki)
Getting Started With The Popover API (smashingmagazine.com)
Nerdy Design Details (kittygiraudel.com)

Shared links — week of 23 February 2026

2026-02-27T12:40:55.881Z

una.im | border-shape: the future of the non-rectangular web (una.im)
Patience (savagechickens.com)
cloudflare/vinext — Vite plugin that reimplements the Next.js API surface — deploy anywhere (github.com)
Sprites on the Web (joshwcomeau.com)
The Best Free Plugins For 2026 (attackmagazine.com)
fmhy/edit — Make changes to FMHY (github.com)

Shared links — week of 16 February 2026

2026-02-21T15:26:57.921Z

sandbox-exec: macOS's Little-Known Command-Line Sandboxing Tool (igorstechnoclub.com)

Shared links — week of 19 January 2026

2026-01-20T10:43:11.654Z

macOS Tidbits (macos-tidbits.lai.nz)

Shared links — week of 12 January 2026

2026-01-16T12:35:35.000Z

corbindavenport/just-the-browser — Remove AI features, telemetry data reporting, sponsored content, product integrations, and other annoyances from web browsers. (github.com)
tw93/Mole — 🐹 Clean, uninstall, analyze, optimize, and monitor your Mac from the terminal. (github.com)
schedule-x/schedule-x — JavaScript event calendar. Modern alternative to fullcalendar and react-big-calendar. (github.com)
So Confident (savagechickens.com)

Shared links — week of 5 January 2026

2026-01-09T08:23:33.024Z

Forget channel closures: watch every decade of MTV music videos online (cdm.link)
Databases in 2025: A Year in Review (cs.cmu.edu)

Shared links — week of 15 December 2025

2025-12-18T15:50:11.000Z

fosrl/pangolin — Identity-aware VPN and tunneled reverse proxy for remote access based on WireGuard®. (github.com)
Ideas (savagechickens.com)

Shared links — week of 8 December 2025

2025-12-09T08:15:53.094Z

Manual: Spaces (type.today)

Shared links — week of 24 November 2025

2025-11-28T09:21:43.000Z

pocketbase/pocketbase — Open Source realtime backend in 1 file (github.com)
The Greatest (savagechickens.com)

Shared links — week of 17 November 2025

2025-11-20T09:47:22.343Z

The Optimist (savagechickens.com)
cloudflare/telescope — Cross-browser web performance testing agent (github.com)
Building a Simple Search Engine That Actually Works (karboosx.net)

Shared links — week of 10 November 2025

2025-11-14T22:53:31.000Z

juanfont/headscale — An open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server (github.com)
Vanilagy/mediabunny — Pure TypeScript media toolkit for reading, writing, and converting video and audio files, directly in the browser. (github.com)
Learning Experience (savagechickens.com)

Shared links — week of 3 November 2025

2025-11-05T14:56:56.604Z

Noop Functions vs Optional Chaining: A Performance Deep Dive (adventures.nodeland.dev)
apps.apple.com: App Store web version (github.com)
A quote from @belligerentbarbies (simonwillison.net)
A new personal best today! (theawkwardyeti.com)
Optimism As Pragmatism (emnudge.dev)
LadybirdBrowser/ladybird — Truly independent web browser (github.com)
hwayne/awesome-cold-showers — For when people get too hyped up about things (github.com)
ffoodd/a11y.css — This CSS file intends to warn developers about possible risks and mistakes that exist in HTML code. It can also be used to roughly evaluate a site's quality by simply including it as an external stylesheet. (github.com)

Shared links — week of 27 October 2025

2025-10-30T11:00:21.680Z

React Compiler v1.0 (react.dev)
React Conf 2025 Recap (react.dev)
EuroLLM (eurollm.io)
sindresorhus/css-extras — Useful CSS custom functions using the new @function rule (github.com)
Build Your Own Database (nan.fyi)

Shared links — week of 20 October 2025

2025-10-23T09:51:10.830Z

Programming With Less Than Nothing (joshmoody.org)
Quantity queries using has() selector (css-tip.com)
steinbergmedia/vst3sdk — VST 3 Plug-In SDK (github.com)
Just use cURL (justuse.org)
bodadotsh/npm-security-best-practices — Continuous updates on how to stay safe from NPM supply chain attacks (github.com)
State and rerenders (jovidecroock.com)

Shared links — week of 13 October 2025

2025-10-14T14:34:27.235Z

Physics Insight (xkcd.com)
nickjvandyke/eslint-plugin-react-you-might-not-need-an-effect — Catch unnecessary React effects for simpler, faster, safer code. (github.com)
HTML’s Best Kept Secret: The output Tag (denodell.com)

Shared links — week of 6 October 2025

2025-10-09T11:28:34.750Z

Introducing the React Foundation: The New Home for React & React Native (engineering.fb.com)
hunvreus/devpush — Like Vercel, but open source and for all languages. (github.com)
fetch-kit/ffetch — TypeScript-first fetch wrapper with configurable timeouts, retries, and circuit-breaker baked in. (github.com)
What You Need to Know about Modern CSS (2025 Edition) (frontendmasters.com)

Shared links — week of 15 September 2025

2025-09-16T08:26:18.382Z

“Your” vs “My” in user interfaces (adamsilver.io)
image-js/image-js — Image processing and manipulation in JavaScript (github.com)
panphora/overtype — The markdown editor that's just a textarea https://overtype.dev (github.com)

Shared links — week of 8 September 2025

2025-09-12T12:36:20.959Z

CSS Bed (cssbed.com)
reshaped-ui/reshaped — Reshaped provides accessible React and Figma components for building beautiful products or starting your own design system (github.com)
projectwallace/css-code-quality — Calculate the Code Quality score of your CSS based on a range of different quality guards. (github.com)
builtbybel/FlyOOBE — Fly through your Windows 11 setup 🐝 (github.com)
Strength and Weakness (savagechickens.com)

Shared links — week of 25 August 2025

2025-08-25T07:25:18.148Z

What are OKLCH colors? (jakub.kr)

Shared links — week of 18 August 2025

2025-08-21T12:39:54.872Z

To Infinity… But Not Beyond! (meyerweb.com)
agentsmd/agents.md — AGENTS.md — a simple, open format for guiding coding agents (github.com)
biomejs/gritql — GritQL is a query language for searching, linting, and modifying code. (github.com)
endless-sky/endless-sky — Space exploration, trading, and combat game. (github.com)
The Best Line Length (blog.glyph.im)

Shared links — week of 4 August 2025

2025-08-05T07:52:32.000Z

BytePhoenixCoding/serato2rekordbox — A python script for converting a Serato library into Rekordbox for USB export or general use. (github.com)
time (theycantalk.com)
Modern Node.js Patterns for 2025 (kashw1n.com)
toss/es-toolkit — A modern JavaScript utility library that's 2-3 times faster and up to 97% smaller—a major upgrade to lodash. (github.com)
anomalyco/opencode — The open source coding agent. (github.com)

Shared links — week of 28 July 2025

2025-07-30T09:10:36.473Z

The Useless useCallback (tkdodo.eu)
Influencer (savagechickens.com)
Phone Camera (candid9.com)
The ultimate meeting culture (abitmighty.com)
Celebrating 10 years of They Can Talk (theycantalk.com)

Shared links — week of 21 July 2025

2025-07-22T12:56:35.340Z

A Friendly Introduction to SVG (joshwcomeau.com)

Shared links — week of 7 July 2025

2025-07-11T12:27:42.696Z

SEO Is Dead. Long Live GEO. (substack.gauravvohra.com)
brianch/offline-chess-puzzles — Tool to view and solve puzzles from the lichess puzzle database (github.com)
Am I online? (antonz.org)

Shared links — week of 30 June 2025

2025-07-04T07:25:12.161Z

Aging (savagechickens.com)
Anthropic: KI-Agent scheitert als Snack-Verkäufer (golem.de)
Ecma International approves ECMAScript 2025: What’s new? (2ality.com)
type-challenges/type-challenges — Collection of TypeScript type challenges with online judge (github.com)
ak0manda/BeenoApp — A tiny macOS utility that mirrors an external monitor in a resizable window. (github.com)

Shared links — week of 23 June 2025

2025-06-26T07:43:21.207Z

Artificial Intelligence Cannot (mcsweeneys.net)

Shared links — week of 16 June 2025

2025-06-18T08:45:04.163Z

Your Brain on ChatGPT (media.mit.edu)
Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task (fermatslibrary.com)
Creating The “Moving Highlight” Navigation Bar With JavaScript And CSS (smashingmagazine.com)
What I Wish Someone Told Me When I Was Getting Into ARIA (smashingmagazine.com)
CSS grid: 1fr 1fr vs auto auto vs 50% 50% (frontendmasters.com)
Anime.js v4 is a lightweight JavaScript animation library with a simple, yet powerful API (animejs.com)

Shared links — week of 9 June 2025

2025-06-12T15:30:07.616Z

A knockout blow for LLMs? (garymarcus.substack.com)
You should know this before choosing Next.js (eduardoboucas.com)

Shared links — week of 2 June 2025

2025-06-03T08:33:55.081Z

My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts (fly.io)
honojs/hono — Web framework built on Web Standards (github.com)
noahbald/oxvg — Fastest SVG toolchain for optimisation, minification, linting, and actions. Usable via CLI, Node, Wasm, or Rust. (github.com)
Lessons From Cursor's System Prompt (byteatatime.dev)
Volcano (savagechickens.com)

Shared links — week of 26 May 2025

2025-05-30T15:06:59.000Z

mat-sz/lettersanitizer — 📧 DOM-based HTML email sanitizer for in-browser email rendering. (github.com)
Which New Language Should I Learn for Web Development? (mtlynch.io)
Cory Doctorow on how we lost the internet (lwn.net)
Why are 2025/05/28 and 2025-05-28 different days in JavaScript? (brandondong.github.io)

Shared links — week of 19 May 2025

2025-05-21T13:19:24.000Z

Anjok07/ultimatevocalremovergui — GUI for a Vocal Remover that uses Deep Neural Networks. (github.com)
antfu-collective/taze — 🥦 A modern cli tool that keeps your deps fresh (github.com)
mkosir/typescript-style-guide — ⚙️ TypeScript Style Guide. A concise set of conventions and best practices for creating consistent, maintainable code. (github.com)
TypeScript Style Guide (mkosir.github.io)