I’ve finally gotten around to If Then by Jill Lepore, and I am blazing through it! Even though it needs to cover a lot of historical context, it is very well written, in an almost lyrical style that is a breath of fresh air in a PopSci book!
In a way, I have to thank Meta for trying to bypass EU laws with the “choice” of staying on free tier and having my data used, because that pop-up serves as a great blocker and allowed me to unlearn a lot of the muscle memory I had for opening up their apps.
I must say I’m quite unhappy that I missed the beginning of advent of code this year, and now I’m doubtful I’ll manage to catch up… One year I’ll hopefully be able to finish one properly…
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.