I spent the day alone walking around New York City. I got a burger at a diner, bought a bunch of books at the The Strand, and saw Scream VI. Everything was glorious.

I just learned that I’ve seen 17 Cate Blanchett movies, which is 18% of the amount of films she’s made. I don’t know what to do with that, but there it is. 🍿

I saw Cocaine Bear last week in theaters, and it was joyous, grind-house, B-movie fun. I see so many reviews miss the point: it’s not Citizen Kane, it’s Citizen Toxie. 🍿

As an exorcise, I’ve been trying to curse less. This morning, out of nowhere, our cat Rocco sunk his nails into my ass. There goes that exorcise.

Started reading: A Subversive’s Guide to Improvisation by David Razowsky 📚.

Finished reading: Responsible JavaScript by Jeremy Wagner. Good quick read on performance and minimizing JS, and I learned a few things. Felt good to know a lot of it and/or agree on the philosophy already 📚.

What a doodle! Is it a gleeful Cardinal Richelieu about to go on an arson spree? The world may never know.

More drawings. Here’s a demon that looks kind of like a Genie. All hail the smoking goat head!

TIL that dynamic JavaScript imports are widely supported!

Started reading: Responsible JavaScript by Jeremy Wagner 📚.

Images in my micro posts aren’t loading properly in micro.blog. The problem is also present in NetNewsWire, so something is clearly off on my end.

Continuing my doodle posts. Here we see something involved in a seemingly bad situation. Hope it works out!

I’ve decided to post my collection of doodles. First up: all this pose!

Started reading: The Rust Programming Language (Covers Rust 2018).

What would you write if you weren’t afraid?—Mary Karr

The opposite of play isn’t work; it’s depression.—Stuart Brown

I did not finish: Middlemarch by George Eliot. I got a bit over 200 pages in, and while I did really enjoy a lot of it, the whole thing is just too floridly Victorian for me at the moment 📚.

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.—Albert Einstein

Each time you write a page, you are a writer. Each time you practice the violin, you are a musician. Each time you start a workout, you are an athlete. Each time you encourage your employees, you are a leader.—Atomic Habits

Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That’s why it’s so hard.—David McCullough

We love to buy books because we believe we’re buying the time to read them.—Warren Zevon

TIL the From HTTP request header. Now used for crawlers, it was originally intended for allow human users to supply their email address to the server. Innocent times.

Finished reading: HTTP Pocket Reference by Clinton Wong, in one day 📚. ETags, anyone?

Checked the micro.blog logs, and the cert “expired” at 10:06 a.m. (EST), so the site was down for almost 2 hours. Previously.

Site was down for a few minutes (that I know of) due to an expired cert error. I checked the server and my cert was not expired. I rebooted nginx and it’s working again. 🤷