Also, the interview with Gaiman from the article I mentioned in my previous post is worth watching in its own right.
Stumbled upon this article by Cal Newport which very nicely puts the words a lot of the thoughts about shifting away from social media and more into the indie web sphere, putting more emphasis on building real communities, instead of chasing online fame.
TIL, thanks to this post, that Go testing uses a single private method in its interfaces, to prevent external code from implementing them, thus ensuring that future extensions won’t break other people’s code. Pretty neat in my opinion!
Also, yes I’m still using this tiny site of mine. Apparently. I have a lot of thoughts and some ambitions for this little corner of the internet. Time will tell how much of them will come to fruition. But as long as I’m having fun doing it, I’ll keep at it.
I’ve been obsessed with rules-light TTRPG systems as of late. My attention has been focused primarily on Mörk Borg (https://morkborg.com) and Death in Space (https://deathinspace.com/) as I fell in love with both the visuals and themes presented in both. It’s fascinating to me how much mileage you can get out of just a few rules and evocative lore with just enough blank space in between to get the gears turning.
After experimenting for half a month with keeping my Daily Notes in Obsidian and Tana, I ultimately returned to the tried & true pen & paper 📝. My main reason was that I felt like keeping my daily notes in a more structured system took a non-negligible amount of time, and also detracted from my attempts to keep more evergreen/permanent notes system, since it cluttered my inbox & also gave me a false sense that I was actually contributing to my knowledge base, when in fact I was producing much more noise than signal. Lesson learned
I think it’s interesting how much “Mindfulness” trainings and courses are organised at a lot of the large tech companies, which have their goals set in the completely opposite direction.
I can’t stop gushing about Maggie Appleton’s Digital Garden! It’s just so good! The look of it, how neat and not cluttered it is, how playful and her own! Seriously, I’m a massive fan and hope that maybe one day I’ll be a bit closer to that level with my own humble attempts.
I’m going to ignore all the contents of Will Larson’s The Staff Engineer for a moment to just point out how ingenious it is to put QR codes next to every article/post/book in the references! Such a simple change, but so helpful!
Hey, look at that, almost exactly a month between my last 2 posts!