Sunday reading
independent software developer, writer, musician
Constantly
If you ever find yourself relaying messages from one group chat to another then you've implicitly implemented the Broadcaster protocol. #TerribleProgrammingJoke
Tonight I built a simple Mastodon client (complete with live refresh) in 64 lines of vanilla Javascript. Very cool.
That moment in baking where you realize things are not going to look like you planned and think to yourself: "Well, at least they'll still taste good."
My life these days:
- Write 3-10 lines of code
- Commit and push
- SSH into server
- Run deploy script
- "Does it look ok now?"
This is not a complaint, it's just an observation.
I’ve gotten way too invested in this story. Goodbye Freeway the Sea Lion you will be missed.
I said something like this a few weeks ago, but I think (through all the doom and gloom) the Web truly has gotten better in the past decade.
- Mastodon gaining real traction as decentralized social media
- Blogging & RSS still thrive, though more niche (substack, patreon, etc)
- Signal provides encrypted messaging and is open source & non-profit
And that's not even mentioning new tech like CRDTs that will make the Web even better. #optimism
This is a week I will remember the rest of my life.
More context later in the week.
(Yes it’s a good thing, don’t worry)
Life hack: How to quickly list the counts of unique items in a column in excel/numbers:
- Select column
- Cmd+C
- Open terminal
pbpaste | sort | uniq -c | sort -n -r
