These are articles that I have read and found useful.
The truth is that everyone has something interesting to say because everyone faces different challenges. Write about what you know and experience in your day-to-day life instead. Authentic posts are always helpful, and you will solidify your own knowledge in the process too.
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There is no more visceral reminder of getting older and time passing than watching your parents get old. It's just I know that next, it's gonna be my 70th birthday. That's what I think of when I see my old man turning 70.
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why/where did those numbers pop into our collective culture? why not 2000 or 4000? or why not 6666? or any other random number for that matter?
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Once I got over my own obstacles, I stopped feeling like I was obligated to meet other people’s expectations. I started enjoying writing again. And so I recently simply started writing again.
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When you’re in a codebase that has been abstracted to high-heaven, having to “Go To Definition” up to six times before you arrive at the actual logic in a program is maddening.
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Whatever your thing is, make the thing you wish you had found when you were learning. Don’t judge your results by “claps” or retweets or stars or upvotes - just talk to yourself from 3 months ago. I keep an almost-daily dev blog written for no one else but me.
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I have a misplaced belief that somehow these plastic boxes represent me in some way, and hold snapshots of my past self. I have misty-eyed visions of, decades from now, happening upon a film or album in its case that I loved when I was 21 and sharing that joy with my children.
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“RSS is dead” every year; it will be dead in the next year again. But before the dead coming in next year, we can do something to make it dead in an elegant way. RSS feed is meant to be used by machine (apps) not by human. But people may visit a feed link directly and shout out WTF is this.
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Small and independent blogs are always full of surprises. The more blogs I stumble upon, the more genuinely surprised I am by the things people do with their blogs. I hope it might inspire non-bloggers to blog and bloggers to tinker more with their site—because obviously the tinkering never ends!
brainbaking.com/post/2022/04/cool-things-people-do-with-their-blogs/
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If own your domain, create value there, and drive people to it, you’re paying ~$10 a year to build unbounded value over the years — value you control. That is why owning a domain (and publishing your content there) is like planting a tree: it’s value that starts small and grows.
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2022 was a massive year for CSS. We got CSS Layers, more subgrid support, the impossible :has() selector, and WE GOT CONTAINER QUERIES! Not a day goes by that I don’t wish I had color functions like
alpha(),lighten(), anddarken()but in native CSS.
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What bothers me about Twitterrific’s final day is that it was not dignified. There was no advance notice for its creators, customers just got a weird error, and no one is explaining what’s going on. We had no chance to thank customers who have been with us for over a decade. Instead, it’s just another scene in their ongoing shit show.
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I designed the 12-bit rainbow palette for use in my data visualisations. It consists of twelve colours chosen with consideration for how we perceive hue, chroma, and luminance.
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I’m keeping my account open… I’ll even log in every now and again to keep the account appearing active because I don’t want my username to vanish. But I think that my activity on Twitter is now at and end.
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Today was an amazing regular day. I add regular because it wasn’t a truly amazing day. Today was a regular day. I had to work, cook and clean, and look after my kids just like any normal weekday. But it went about as well as a regular day can.
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