There are still absolutely beautiful websites using basic css and html with little or no js…
What we’ve lost, it seems to me, is the broad indie pipeline to both learning and socializing (and socially learning).
partly because we who learned it 20yrs ago have landed in more specialized/complex jobs.
As part of that ~20 year ago learning, I completely agree. The internet culture does not default to the web, the open thing we all fell in love with. The only way most folks interact online is through corporate captured channels. Raising this, the response is often some form of, “yeah and the sky is blue”. It feels that inevitable. But as we continually learn, change is a constant. What end of the scale do you want to press on?
Does anyone still use Last.fm? I just (re)discovered that I’ve had an account since 2007. Old profile photo to match.
There are two types of New Yorkers who don’t take the subway. Working folks who live in a transit desert, or silver spoon scum fucks hellbent on casually destroying your life.
I love a street cart kabab. The stick makes it seem portable, and I always end up covered in shit. I will eat them forever.
Some new room decor.
As always, I have mid Oscar guesses. Very happy to see all the Sinners and One Battle After Another love, and boy was I happy to be wrong about Amy Madigan. 🍿
A friend didn’t want their Aloe anymore, so I took it home. Looking pretty good so far, I think.
I had only seen a small part of this movie when I was maybe six, from under the couch. Really fun to revisit as an adult. I enjoyed it legitimately, but it was also dare I say healing to that little kid who was so scared of it. I think what confused and scared me the most as a child was how mean the characters are to each other. And man does this thing deal with DARK themes. Some banger van dyke parks tunes as well.
The human characters constantly have plot realizations out of thin air, and there’s way more ghosts than I was expecting.
I got stuck down in Florida for a week because of the storm in the northeast. Pretty stressful, but glad to have some time in the sun. Going to be flying back tomorrow. 🤞🛬
I gave a talk at Florida Drupal Camp over the weekend. Advanced CSS Custom Properties for Components. The camp was great, the organizers are terrific, and I think the session went well, despite some technical mistakes on my part. I’ll post the session as a blog post soon.
What do you call a real dirt bag who you can’t get off your couch who has a really low voice?
A schlub woofer.
I beat Tunic last night and got the good ending. What a charming, hard-ass game! My girlfriend had already 100% it, so she gave me little nudges and hints, mostly to avoid spending a lot of time down a wrong path, but I still feel accomplished. 🕹️
Today I Learned that the diff utility has the --ed option, to output the diff as commands for ed to transform a file. I don’t know that this would be actually useful over a pipeline with patch or similar, but I like it a lot. 💽
This is the only children’s cartoon I know of that nails the whiplash morphing of dream logic. One moment you’re joyfully flying through the air on your bed, then next you’re underwater being chased by a train.
Some people may say Nemo lifts directly from the Wizard of Oz, or The NeverEnding Story. Those people are boring.
Nemo has all the emotional beats of a maudlin, down the middle children’s animated feature of the time, with the bug eyed psychedelia of that dream you kept having as a kid. You know the one.
