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Neovim makes me feel like a fresh young dev and at same time very old
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Currently reading: The Shortest History of Greece: The Odyssey of a Nation from Myth to Modernity (Shortest History) by James Heneage 📚when in er, Greece
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Going to take a while to sink in that some normal people are in charge of the UK now.
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Current obsession: everything sold on niwaki.com 🔪 🇯🇵
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No wind so kids had a paddle boarding battle instead
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Currently reading: Howards End by E. M. Forster 📚
Picking this up again after not finishing it many years ago
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Something so satisfyingly traditional about a summer F1 race, in Europe, starting at 2pm.
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@stephenbc.bsky.social I feel your pain regularly! We’ve had nothing but trouble with consent mode v2 in GTM and our provider CookieYes
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@stephenbc.bsky.social check out posthog.com as a partial replacement. Not personally used it in a commercial app yet, but hear good things and has pricing & features I tend to look for
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Unspoken expectations are pre meditated resentments Neil Strauss
Wow.
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🍎 what an line (often misattributed to Leonardo da Vinci, apparently). I see the font everywhere in B2C websites now.
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I love the smell of admin in the morning
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Pompidou, Paris
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@ellyloel great post, thank you for writing, I love the term “JavaScript industrial complex” 😀 I’ll be sharing with the frontend / web designers I work with
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Progress is fixing the problems of the previous generation, while also creating new ones.
Except nothing is ever really new.
As in life, as in code.
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This excellent post is a reminder of the merits of “boring tech” in most companies of the world who aren’t Big Tech or AI startups antonz.org/stupid
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Bit too heavy in the end for me but .. tldr - Rasputin was a sexual predator, we know this, but the times he lived in were fascinating : Rasputin by Douglas Smith 📚
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GA4… GTM… Consent Mode v2.. GA… BiqQuery… you can all get in the sea 🌊
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Another AI enabled glasses product. Although this one looks like it’s been made for humans, which is refreshing: https://brilliant.xyz
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This is a well-written manifesto on JS based web development: ahastack.dev
We use Astro for wonderbly.com with some React for interactivity and it does feels like the square-peg in the Astro’s round-hole.
The more I read about htmx the more I want to join its hype train :D
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“Things can only get better” (famously used by UK Labour in 97) just came on radio. Got me fired up for a general election, we need one!
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Currently reading: October, October by Katya Balen 📚
Oooh this is a good one, kids are hooked
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@tchambers thank you for this write up, some super interesting links to dig into