By reading less I have actually been reading more. Something I learned about myself this year is that, while I love reading, I would speed through a book just to get it done. I was not allowing myself to enjoy the words on the page. I wasn’t immersing in the world. I wasn’t participating in the world building. I wasn’t learning the lessons the book was trying to teach me.

DHH was right (again) -> world.hey.com/dhh/autom…

Super timely Marcus Aurelius quote popped up in the discover feed: Thanks to gregmorris.co.uk/2024/10/0… for sharing you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Cant stop thinking about building something with NextJS so I guess i just have to do that. Feeling a bit of a hyperfocus brewing on this as a new shiny toy and dopamine source so just gonna lean into that and learn this shit 🤓

wow… wpengine.com/wp-conten… Matt Mullenweg needs to step down. What a disgrace 🍿

switowski.com/blog/i-li… I too also like Makefiles. Love that consistent tooling and dev interface on projects :)

The creator of WordPress throwing shade at other companies because they are not contributing back enough is a bad look. To make his point, Mullenweg compared the Five For the Future contributions from Automattic and WP Engine, a competitor of similar size. Automattic contributes 3,786 hours per week, while WP Engine contributes just 47. 40 hours a week contributing back to an open source project seems pretty good. I mean, wtf is this comparison in the first place, Automattic is the governing company for WordPress.

morning jogging music 🎧

I am working with WordPress a lot more. And so that has me thinking about WordPress a lot more. One thing I cannot shake is how messy the platform feels. And how poor of a developer experience that WordPress provides. It could be better. I watched this video from Pantheon Developer Advocate, and thought it was interesting. I can feel the frustration - Is more Gutenberg the future of WordPress?

My boring regular-ass take about Linux adoption is this: it aint for everyone and that’s totally fine. Why don’t more people use it? Let’s be honest, Linux asks way more of you than MacOS or Windows does. That’s a tall barrier to entry for many people. I use MacOS, because I don’t want to think about my OS any more than I have to. But I run Linux on every server I touch, because I don’t want to have to think about my servers any more than I have to :P

Huh, saw a comment that said the USPS should provide email service and allocate citizens email addresses. It just makes a lot of sense to me. So many services require an email address and it is super weird that we offload that critical responsibility entirely to companies like Google.

AWS has historically been pretty good for me as a hosting solution… but there are so many landmines and gotchas to navigate that I am starting to look elsewhere

Hmm I am writing some Go code but I have no idea if it is idiomatic Go code or even okay Go code. Gonna need to introduce myself to some GoLang folk at the next local dev meeting

My executive function is shot today 🤪 🚨

TIL that you can configure apple notes to just be a body with no title. Its a small thing, but it is really nice for my second brain. less to think about just type note and be done with it

Dont make things harder than they need to be. Make a choice. You can always make changes later. Like, get the first draft out thats the hard part. Anyways i just went with Google workspace because i didnt want to think about email that much. It works 😂 and if it doesnt ill change it later

Trying to setup a google workspace account this morning, and it keeps funneling me into a plan I do not want with no option to change it during sign up. Allegedly the steps are to just accept the much higher plan and then downgrade, but like, why this user hostile approach? I specifically chose to start with a smaller plan and it still herds me into a much higher priced plan.

how can we stop nagging users to subscribe to a newsletter when they have already subscribed? I don’t want to annoy folk. I think we can design better experiences here

Today I learned that Affinity Designer has a QR Code drawing tool. What a time saver!

I think there is a third audience to think about when doing SEO - the LLMs. So it’s not just search engine optimization, it’s language model optimization. What does that even look like?

The conflict I have with SEO is that I am trying to speak to two different audiences. Trying to be authentic and speak to people like humans vs trying to game the search index and speak to the bots, it’s ridiculous.

my order of Segfault ☕️ arrived last night that I ordered from terminal.shop made a pot this morning and it’s pretty good! hoping it gives me super neovim coder powers today 😂 🤓

love this! blog.jim-nielsen.com/2024/impr… It will no longer be enough to blog in order to merely “put out content”. The key will be what has always been key to great blogging: expressing your unique, inimitable impression.

Be CI/CD agnostic. Develop your build system to operate outside of any specific CI system and you can then easily use any CI system that your clients may be using 🧑‍💻

If it weren’t for breakdancing and skateboarding I wouldn’t be watching the olympics this year 🤷 so I dunno, it totally worked to bring in some new viewers. the soundtrack has been incredibly good too