@petergleick @tdp_org in a few decades I think there’ll be things emerging that make the tobacco companies look like they had our best interests at heart.

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Shout out to balena.io for a) making almost all their code open source b) having a really solid product and c) their support team not blacklisting me for endlessly opening tickets that can be summarised as “I know your product isn’t meant to do this, but are there any workarounds I can use to make it do it anyway”
I mentioned I did something 25 years ago, and then it sunk in that I wasn’t *that* young even then. Is this what getting old feels like?
“Pay for privacy plus” says the cookie consent banner on a news article I barely cared about to begin with. It is 10am and I already want to burn everything down.
@mattl @CatherineFlick while I applaud the sentiment, no, I would not install a third party tracking system on my website in the year 2025.
Not saying the postman is juicing his stats but the parcel that was due before midday and marked as delivered at 11:30 just got posted through my letterbox at 16:45.
“Astro introduced something called "Island Architecture," and once you understand it, you'll wonder why we've been doing things any other way.
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Your pages are static HTML by default, and only the bits that need interactivity become JavaScript "islands."
(From https://websmith.studio/blog/astro-is-a-developers-dream/)
We’ve gone full circle folks, all the way back round to “generate HTML on the server and progressively enhance with JavaScript”.
It finally happened, I ended up on my arse while bouldering, via my elbow. Not ideal because it hurts, and I wanted to climb more, but it does mean I’m pushing out of my comfort zone. Also I got back on and kicked that boulder’s arse before the adrenaline ran out and I noticed quite how sore i was.