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.

Doing more PHP these days. So I am catching up on better practices and modern php. I thought this site was a very helpful resource.

Learn to write clear, idiomatic Go.

Learn Ruby on Rails. Gorails is amazing. Chris Oliver is a beast.

Solutions to everyday boring problems in web development to keep you productive.

Solid model for adding seo meta to your rails cms.

I've been practing leetcode to support and strengthen my understanding of data structures and algorithms. This article does a great job of helping you with how to think about and actually practice leetcode.

Loved this CI/CD manifesto. I was taught to think about the devops and CI/CD pipeline the same way, and so learned to build them this way. Glad I did. The gist is to write them to be developer friendly and to be debuggable. The way I do that is with Ruby, because of how easy it is to create a DSL with Ruby. Also Rake is a great interface for things like pipeline code.

Really funny site that simulates what it is like to just be on your phone.

Look at you! On your phone! But you’ve got a secret! And you won’t tell! You’re not on your phone! It is only as if you were on your phone! You’re just pretending to be on your phone! On your phone!

Pretty cool new way to handle color in CSS. The gist as I understand it is it will give more reasonable and expected results as you lighten and darken a color. Additionally, it's an expanded color space (P3 color?) which means, if your monitor supports it, we can use more colors. Neat.

So often in my own job I am asked to estimate effort of something similar to what we have built before. And I get so much push back about how "easy" something should be. But we often fail to account for the unknowns, and fail to explain clearly that the 10% difference is the difference between a 1 day task and a 2 week task. This article does a great job of explaining that.

Great way to include meta tags in a Rails app. I've done this in a very similar way, but this article does a great job of explaining the why and how.

The IndieWeb is a people-focused alternative to the "corporate web". Build your own website, control your own data, post to your own site. Syndicate to the wider web. It's pretty neat, I am starting to tinker and integrate into my own site.