Notes
Short updates, links, and thoughts that do not need to be full blog posts.
I've been using Kagi as my search engine for a few weeks now and I don't think I'll be switching back anytime soon. For a few dollars per month, my entry in to the internet is a serve for me, not a space where I can be advertised to. Definitely recommend checking it out.
The #html element is fantastic on mobile and basically unusable on desktop. It's very frustrating!
I got very familiar with the Chrome debugger tools today. They are so good. I wish I’d started using them earlier in my career. I didn’t fix the bug I was looking at, but the tools are very cool!
I am very much enjoying the internets slow swing from closed systems to open protocols
I have just learned that the word volumous is not a real word and that the correct word is voluminous.
What?!
Looks like the BBC is experimenting with the #fediverse
The Barbie film is fantastic
Check out this project by @lukem
A human curated list of websites worth visiting. A hand crafted algorithm if you will.
https://www.vipshek.com/blog/interaction
This is a great article. I dislike the terms introvert and extrovert, it’s so much more nuanced!
I’m drinking Rich Harris’ coolaid. SvelteKit is fantastic.
I’d very happily be wrong, but more and more I believe building backends for anything important with a non typesafe language is a bad idea.
I think I include #TypeScript in this, which is just a non typesafe language wearing a monocle.
Climate Town is a great channel if you're interested in how cities work!
This is a wonderful article. Electric bikes are class ⚡️
I've spent all morning listening to Lewis Capaldi and fixing css issues. I'll probably spend the afternoon doing the same thing.
What does the development setup look like at your company? I’m particularly interested if your app is multi service/repo?
Reposts appreciated!
I find myself taking two different kinds of notes.
• Notes to help me remember something (gift ideas, door keycode etc) • Notes about thoughts I want to externalise so I can think about them more clearly
I've been keeping them all in the same place, but more and more, that seems dumb. I'm going to start using #Obsidian for thoughts and keep my other "remember me" notes in Apple notes.
I still think my kindle is one of my most prised possessions. I’ve spend a large part of my day, sitting in my garden, with a dog, reading in the sun. Not a bad weekend at all.
Error handling in #JavaScript and #TypeScript is not good. There is no way for the caller of the function to know if it can throw an error and no way for the compiler/linter to enforce that an error is handled.
#Rust does a much better job of this!
I spent some time this evening learning about video transcoding, streaming and the difference between a video’s container and its encoding. It’s way more complicated than I realised!
I don’t want to join any more Discord servers. Please use Discourse for communities!
I’m gonna be in London for a few hours at lunch time today. Anyone wanna hang out?
I got out flying yesterday evening
Bluesky now let’s you pick the feeds/algorithms you want to subscribe to.
The H in AWS stands for happiness
Looking after a very long dog today
