An incredible dive into why you don’t need, or really don’t want, React for your next web project. I agree with mostly everything here. What’s stood out is that we offload too much to user machines, and in fact, put too much emphasis on the developer experience and organizational baggage than on real user needs. Also, use hotwire or htmx.

Joplin is a neat note-taking app. Also does “todos”. Has a CLI which is pretty useful if you spend a lot of time on the command line. I’ve started tinkering with the tool and it’s neat. I think if you version control the data this becomes even more useful.

Pretty fun site I found when watching American Gods and looking up why Wednesday was named such. I knew that Thursday was “Thor’s Day,” but did not know Wednesday is Odin’s Day. Tuesday is for Tyr. Sunday and Monday are named for the Sun and the Moon. Friday is Odins wife Frigg. Interesting stuff, especially as I am slowly digging into Anglo-Saxon paganism, which shares some roots in Norse as well.

Want to know how big our world’s land masses really are? Fun site giving you the real scale of the world’s countries in comparison to each other.

They are hosting their site on a Nintendo Wii. I love it. So fun!

I have been learning about kitsch, what makes art kitsch, what makes art “art,” and how all of this craft evolves. What was avant-garde in the past could be kitsch today. Or hell, even just taking someone’s real “art” and mass-reproducing it beyond reason can dilute the work so much it falls into kitsch. The Mona Lisa, for example. It’s like right on the edge and it’s just now a de facto avatar of “art” without meaning.