Patrick @patrick@social.basementcomputer.site

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This is peak nerd: https://healeycodes.com/doom-rendered-via-checkboxes

This is truly heroic work: https://scribe.rip/

Super cool to see an old friend/co-worker of mine hit the front-page of hacker news! https://www.bryanbraun.com/2021/09/21/i-keep-making-things-out-of-checkboxes/

VSCode users beware telemetry is now not an option: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28812486 and it was bound to happen and who knows what's next? You don't have to worry about that with Emacs or Vim 😎

I ended up not using ruby prettier. I didn't agree with some of the formatting choices. Oh well. Rubocop it is.

Anyone use prettier for Ruby? Considering it. I still have a love/hate thing with rubocop but wanted some auto formatting for consistency anyway. https://github.com/prettier/plugin-ruby

Also. It's ok to reinvent the wheel a little... really, there is something magical about writing lean software, the less dependence on bloated packages the better.

I have to admit: TypeScript is awful.

I quit for a lot of these reasons. I still have a blog and mastodon, LinkedIn for work/recruiting but that's it. https://durmonski.com/life-advice/reasons-to-quit-social-media/ well said 👏

Just in case you wanted to see the code changes for dark mode: https://github.com/patricksimpson/blog/commit/b5477bc9dc7d22319c06615b2021edec437cd9ec

Just added DARK MODE to my blog. Detects based on browser settings. Special thanks to https://github.com/tastytea for the over 1 year old PR that I didn't see that brought this to my attention. Also: https://css-tricks.com/dark-modes-with-css/ (go nuts)!

https://fly.io/blog/how-we-got-to-liveview/

It's OK to duplicate code!

Mountains

I would add, stop using twitter/facebook too.

I couldn't agree with this more: https://nomedium.dev/

Super cool: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/internet-culture/deep-dives/why-are-hyperlinks-blue/

Discord DB story (super interesting): https://blog.discord.com/how-discord-stores-billions-of-messages-7fa6ec7ee4c7