Notes

Short updates, links, and thoughts that do not need to be full blog posts.

I’ve been thinking about a social media model where your website is your profile and where your posts live. There would be aggregator services kinda like mastodon that you submit/connect your website to and it would facilitate boosting/discovery and commenting.

Maybe it would be possible to access those comments and have them displayed on your own site too.

This is a little like hacker news I guess, except once connected each post would automatically be shared with your “home server”.

Heading out to do some flying this afternoon. The weather is definitely marginal, so it'll be a good opportunity to push my skills.

I've started using Karibiner Elements to remap my keyboard. This is a slippery slop. Please send help!

I recently switched from using the Apple Magic Mouse to their Magic Trackpad and so far it is a big improvement. We'll see how my wrist holds up.

I got to see Foy Vance play with the Ulster Orchestra. It was incredible. I’ve you’ve not listened to Foy Vance, you should. I cannot recommend him enough. He’s criminally underrated. #Music

One of the things that interests me about #Deno more than #Node is the fact it has a standard library. JavaScript could really use a universal stdlib.

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.

https://kagi.com/

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 have just learned that the word volumous is not a real word and that the correct word is voluminous.

What?!

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.

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!