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2022
2021
Weeknotes for the week ending June 27, 2021
Oh this one will be a simple project....
Weeknotes for the week ending June 20, 2021
The "no not salad" days of Summer.
Weeknotes for the week ending June 13, 2021
A little bit of everything, but only some of the time.
Weeknotes for the week ending June 6, 2021
Vacation all I ever wanted, vacation, had to get away.
Weeknotes for the week ending May 30, 2021
Notes for the week ending May 30, 2021. Got older, read a book, did some work.
Weeknotes for the week ending May 23, 2021
What happened this week, May 27 - May 23, 2021.
Weeknotes for the week ending May 16, 2021
What happened this week, May 11 - May 16, 2021.
Working Conditions
Thoughts on work schedules, pre and post pandemic, and how much you can expect from a 🧠.
Opening Day
I don’t follow the Red Sox nearly as closely as I used to, but I at least knew today was opening day. Or, was supposed to be, I saw it was cancelled. The last time I was at Fenway for opening day was 2009, and the weather was about the same, low 40s and rain / something that looks like snow but lands as rain. It was the middle of three events at Fenway that were each so miserably cold that I gave up on going for at least five years.
Marking the Pandemic by Plane
Last March, there were no planes. The sky was silent and empty. It occurred to me that in a lot of places, the sky is always like that. But here, it was immediately noticeable that the planes were gone.
Stencil, Markdown, and web components in Markdown
I’ve had an idea floating around for a while: MDX is great, but I hate all of the steps around configuring / building React components with it. If I’m writing Markdown, HTML is valid in Markdown, and Web Components are valid HTML, so why not just stick Web Components in Markdown and call it a day?
Rush - ing a repo
Some notes on moving an existing Git repository into a Rush monorepo structure.
From Netlify CMS to Forestry
Why I switched the content editor on this site from Netlify CMS to Forestry.io.
CDNs Aren’t as Useful as They Used to Be
When I was learning to be a web developer it was beaten into my head that if you were building a site and loading 3rd party scripts on it (e.g. jQuery, Bootstrap), you should load them from a CDN because if a user on your site had been to another site that used jQuery (likely) and they used the same version of jQuery (somewhat likely), and that other site also used the same CDN for jQuery (i.e. https://code.jquery.com/, which was pretty likely given we didn’t have as many widely available CDNs back then), then the browser would pull the version of jQuery you were requesting from the cache instead of downloading it again. Everyone wins! Except the first site to request jQuery that a user hit with an empty cache.
New about page
I’ve been lazy about putting a new about page on this site, because I wanted to make it look better than the plain text wall I had in the last design. I decided since I’m sitting at my home desk almost always these days, I’d make an interactive version for you to play along with.
Fuck Donald Trump
Days after, or even the day of the 2017 inauguration, I was in North Station and someone was singing just the chorus of “FDT” over and over.
Who uses Safari
I’ve saved this screenshot for the next time I need to have a debate about dropping older browser support. It’s from My PlayStation, and the browser is Safari (desktop and mobile!). Literally no way to view your account on an iOS device without downloading the app. Some light Google-ing says there’s over 100 million people with Playstation accounts so it’s unlikely I’m the only person annoyed by this.
Hawk, guy
Our backyard is a tiny stretch of trees before a river, but there are a lot of trees. If you asked me how many, I couldn’t guess, if you asked me what kinds I’d say “tree kinds”, but if you ask me to look at the back window and spot a bird through the hundreds of thousands of branches my brain will pick them out in an instant every time. Just don’t ask me what kind of bird.
What’s a new year anyway
I’ve never been one for New Year’s resolutions. I think that is, in part, because I’ve lived in New England my entire life. Why start something in January - the month of short days, cold weather, general malaise, and then hope it sticks through February, the month I will always argue does not need to exist.
instax
Got the kid an instax mini 11 for Christmas. It’s an instant camera that develops on 1.8’’ x 2.4’’ film.