Shrutarshi Basu 

I finally sat down and wrote a list of (some of) the projects I want to do. There's probably enough in there to keep me busy for a couple of years, but for now let's just see how much I can get done by the end of the year. And that means I'll probably be writing a lot of TypeScript in the near future. That's not ideal, but TypeScript seems like the most suitable tool at hand for the time being.

Reeder: A New Approach to Following Feeds

Reeder has been my go-to app for reading RSS feeds for several years, on both macOS and iOS. I especially like it on my iPad Mini. The new Reeder is an ambitious redesign meant to be a one-stop shop for feeds from all sources, including RSS, social media and podcasts. It's an interesting idea, but it's very different from how I consume feeds. In particular, I prefer my RSS reading to be in the form of an inbox, rather than a stream. To be honest, I'm not quite sure who this new version is for.

I'm really glad that the older RSS-version is sticking around as Reeder Classic and I'll be sticking with that for the foreseable future.

Departure Mono

Via Robin Rendle.

Yet another interesting monospace font. This one I would probably never use myself (unless I made a video game or some kind of throwback UI), but still a lovely experiment. The website is also a joy.

I really hate how in 2024 putting decent sidenotes on a webpage requires one of JavaScript, non-semantic HTML, or a site generator to do the reasonably correct thing.

Also, it's not engineering unless you take personal responsibility for your work, and accept personal liability for harms caused by your work. Most of you code monkeys can sod off, you're not engineers you're programmers and your entire industry is built on dodging liability.

From Varve at Write On. A bit harsh, but they're not wrong.

My therapist gave me homework today. Between that, staying with my parents, and spending a lot of time working on my website and other web-related stuff, it's like I'm 16 all over again.

I think we should always write about what we know, or what we wish to know.

Anaïs Nin in The Novel of the Future (via Warren Ellis).

I brought over my research page to Version 4. I'm once again pleased with how (reasonably) straightforward it has become to build nice layouts with modern CSS. Thank you past me for writing good, semantic HTML which made it easy to move the page over from Version 3.

There are also new OpenGraph images which should make for nicer previews on social media platforms.

Today I worked through the bf chapter of Beautiful Racket. I'm enjoying, but also kinda wary of, the macro-centric approach to writing interpreters.

Got a new job posting notification from an entity known as, I kid you not, John Galt Staffing.