🍎 what an line (often misattributed to Leonardo da Vinci, apparently). I see the font everywhere in B2C websites now.
I love the smell of admin in the morning
Heroku - positive developments
Positive things coming from Heroku re support for cloud native buildpacks and rebasing on Kubernetes. Their emerging AI support also interesting.
Feels significant given the sense of bitrot over the last few years, especially around docker and slow dyno scaling.
Good luck to new CEO who is clearly on a mission to bring Kubernetes in, although please hide most of it from customers!
Pompidou, Paris
Progress is fixing the problems of the previous generation, while also creating new ones.
Except nothing is ever really new.
As in life, as in code.
This excellent post is a reminder of the merits of “boring tech” in most companies of the world who aren’t Big Tech or AI startups antonz.org/stupid
Currently reading: Judas by Amos Oz 📚absolutely hooked on the characters and the setting of 1959 Israel
Bit too heavy in the end for me but .. tldr - Rasputin was a sexual predator, we know this, but the times he lived in were fascinating : Rasputin by Douglas Smith 📚
GA4… GTM… Consent Mode v2.. GA… BiqQuery… you can all get in the sea 🌊
Another AI enabled glasses product. Although this one looks like it’s been made for humans, which is refreshing: https://brilliant.xyz
This is a well-written manifesto on JS based web development: ahastack.dev
We use Astro for wonderbly.com with some React for interactivity and it does feels like the square-peg in the Astro’s round-hole.
The more I read about htmx the more I want to join its hype train :D
“Things can only get better” (famously used by UK Labour in 97) just came on radio. Got me fired up for a general election, we need one!
Currently reading: October, October by Katya Balen 📚
Oooh this is a good one, kids are hooked
Year in books for 2023
I actually finished more than this but only started tracking recently.
Top of the fiction list is surely Lessons followed closely Bonfire of the Vanities.
Barrow’s Boys wins my non fiction list - an inspiring true tale of a daring and fanatic devotion to adventure and science.
Finished reading: Tokyo Express by Seicho Matsumoto 📚
Sailing goals for 2024: to be a (somewhat) competent member of a crew
Bye for now omg.lol, you were great