Thursday, May 16, 2024
I've been wondering about the new everything page the past few days. Specifically whether having all post types interleaved is a good reading experience. I'm starting to think that perhaps having the links somewhere seperate might be a better idea.
The problem is that there are so many of them and they are often completely unrelated to the notes and blog posts content. That might be a bit distracting. Also sometimes it's nice just to browse the links without being distracted by the notes and blog posts. It might be that a special links section at the bottom of each day might be a better way to lay things out.
On the other hand I wonder whether that could be done using just CSS. That would make the display toggleable. Just a few thoughts while I'm waiting for my Github build minutes to reset. #
From the most recent Ship It podcast episode, when it comes to infrastructure, Meta is a very on-prem company, they literally have at this point millions of seperate machines running. Also interesting is that for servers they use CentOS, and for Desktop a mixture of Fedora, Windows and OSX. #
Rainy season is in full swing. It's horrible. Yesterday afternoon was torrential rain for hours, right into the early evening. Luckily I managed to get a hot instant noodle soup, without which I honestly think some form of hypothermia might have kicked in. This was all to the amussement of the shop staff.
The world is being particularly cruel and mean at the minute. The only help I got was two tiny child sized cartons of milk at around 2am from a passer by. That was followed up predictably by motorbike gang stalker harrassment. I've hardly eatten anything the past 3 days, so my body is really low on energy. #
MatthewWid/better-sse - "A dead simple, dependency-less, spec-compliant server-side events implementation for Node, written in TypeScript". I've wanted to try out server-side events as a web sockets alternative for ages. This implementation looks pretty cool. github.com #
Bluesky Is Building The Decentralized Social Media Jack Dorsey Wants, Even If He Doesn’t Realize It - Mike Masnick from Techdirt, who is likely the internet's most knowledgeable person when it comes to moderation, weighs-in on the recent Jack Dorsey - Bluesky flareup. His piece does a great job of highlighting the back story of the whole situation. The only thing I think he misses somewhat is Jack's focus on decentralisation, and soecifucally the lessons learnt from Bitcoin. Censorship resistant tech is very difficult to build, and I'm not sure Bluesky optimises for that. techdirt.com #
Amazon S3 will no longer charge for several HTTP error codes - No more charges for HTTP 403 (Access Denied) and a few other error codes! aws.amazon.com #
At some point, JavaScript got good - A long time javascript reflects on howvit used to be vs how it is now. It's definitely easier than before with the new primitives. The obsession with Typescript is a bit of a shame in my opinion, much harder to learn, and it's like the community never really gave JS a chance, and now that it's actually pretty good, everyone has moved on to the new shiney. jonbeebe.net #
VMware giving away Workstation Pro, Fusion Pro free for personal use - Back when I was working for film VFX shops, we used virtualisation a lot, though it was Parallels rather than VMWare. Good move by VMWare here, because as they have correctly realised, it's the best way to onboard new users, many of which will later upgrade to a paid license once they have an income from working professionally. theregister.com #