Finished reading: Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney 📚
Vacations are for reading.
Finished reading: Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney 📚
Vacations are for reading.
Finished reading: The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien 📚
A week in between new episodes of The Rings of Power was too long…
They look a bit bored at the Huawei store today.
I love the new color backgrounds on the Modular Apple Watch face. Instead of trying to simulate the analogue, embrace the screen.
Maps in iOS 16 still does not have cycling directions for Vienna. ☹️
“Queen Elizabeth II – a role model for startup founders?”
Okok.
The Arrogance of the Anthropocene by Peter Brannen
I played around with Stable Diffusion last night and this still haunts me.
I sign up to new services using FastMails Masked Email feature. Now I receive emails like this:
Running errands on my bicycle and the clouds are looming dark behind me.
Mobile-First CSS: Is It Time for a Rethink?
Interesting approach. When writing CSS with defaults in mind it can be beneficial for performance to write closed media query ranges instead of mobile first media queries.
This is neat. A map that shows how far you can travel by train in 5 hours across Europe
It’s the time of the year where every day I wear a jacket when going to the office and every day I leave the office without a jacket.
Today I got my hair and beard shaved professionally for the first time ever. Doesn‘t look very different, but the details are more precise.
Finished reading: Matrix by Lauren Groff 📚
A first look at Bun: is it really 3x faster than Node.js and Deno?
TLDR: Competition is good, even for JavaScript runtimes. But don’t use Bun for production yet.
Dave Rupert on the increasing demands of the frontend.
👨💻 I released a new minor update for @fec/gatsby-plugin-advanced-feed. v3.0.1 fixes the engine constraint in package.json and moves some dependencies in the right section.
When buying software you are also paying for the developers vacation time, sick leave, care leave, etc. Panic sent this very nice email that they are extending the Nova subscription to give the developer time off. It’s a nice gesture, but it should not be necessary.
Apparently I’ve become the kind of person who irons their shirts on a Sunday morning.
Bright Eyes at Arena Open Air, Vienna
The results of three hours of foraging in the Styrian woods:
Later today I will spend three hours in a train and I forgot my book at home 😭
Living the aperativo life
Software architecture does not always solve technical problems. Micro-services and micro-frontends exist to create small, independent and agile teams. If applied for technical reasons, they create more problems than they solve.