Doing taxes evokes the same feeling as working on a legacy code base.

Apparently the domain wethot.dev is available -- buy?

woah, fish lists start at index 1

> You can access individual elements with square brackets. Indexing starts at 1 from the beginning

Towards the end of my batch at RC I wanted to work through Crafting Interpreters using Cult. Finally getting around to working through it, which feels great. Hope my schedule continues to allow me to get back into some of the projects from last summer.

Localhost: Nolen Royalty's One Million Checkboxes YouTube video by Recurse Center

One Million Applause for One Million Checkboxes 👏✅👏✅👏

Check out @itseieio.bsky.social's brilliant talk on games, connecting strangers, and how some very smart teens subverted his code and touched his heart ❤️‍🔥

youtu.be/j2elKdupD6c

Both: a 3d game about accounting ledgers...

Localhost: Greg Sadetsky and disco YouTube video by Recurse Center

Great talk last night by the inimitable @greg.technology on disco the diy antiheroku and why you (yes you!) should make a bunch of fun little web sites

youtu.be/z2lP7C8VT6M

A schedule of the Handmade Seattle conference.

I'm in Seattle for the Handmade conference today. RC folks might find it interesting and all talks are live streamed for free. I am particularly looking forward to Andrew Kelley's talk on the Free Software movement and bummed Billy Basso dropped out (next year tho.)

handmadecities.com/seattle/

A poem to be worn.

A scuffed public sidewalk with the words "a poem to be worn"

"A poem to be worn"

The Sinterklaas festival in Rhinebeck, New York is cancelled for 2024.

Oh noooo

A shot of a woodpecker on a tree trunk with tree branches contrasting the sky.

A wood pecker and I startled each other yesterday on a walk through the woods.

I like how the tree limbs look layered like neurons or graph edges.

I appreciate the simplicity behind daftsocial.com -- a self described anti-social social network for minimalists.

Got it. That explains why everything is turned into YouTube.

Hey @petesie.bsky.social When is Google going to release its next social media app that they'll cancel in 18 months?

A blue msn (Microsoft's web portal) logo that features the side profile of a butterfly

Also also, the bluesky logo reminds me of the msn logo...

Also, is the @bsky.app logo a stylized "X" to poke fun at the site formerly known as Twitter? Or just a coincidence?

Monarch money orange butterfly logo

2024 is the year of the butterfly logo in my life.

(@bsky.app logo and @monarch_money logo)