getting this just under the wire today

this is so nice https://www.futurefonts.xyz/duong-tran/loes

rewatching All The Little Things and i just don't understand how the js community never ended up doing more of these kinds of talks but as far as i can tell, due to social media dynamics, it focused its energy intensely into releasing frameworks and libraries instead. i'm sure somebody else has written this, but it feels rails and django had the benefit of thriving under a blog/bulletin board-centric environment where content-rich talks were the natural outcome, not github stars or npm installs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bZh5LMaSmE

when will germany truly have unification? never???

bluey in latin-american spanish is such a letdown. so many missed opportunities for casting, but the biggest of all seems to me bandit who sounds like the lamest dad possible in spanish. i feel like what makes him work in english is that he's both very confident and in that he projects a one-time cool, but the spanish dub makes him just sound square and marshmallowey. no disrespect to the voice actor who is clearly trying _something_, but it's really miscast. chili is also terribly miscast imo, both of them sound like they're at least ten years older than in the original mix and both sound like doughy elementary school teachers instead of Secretly Cool Parents.

new gold dream

From brick builder Angus MacLane, if you recognise it, I think it'll make you smile. I certainly had a little giggle. 😁

once again getting canceled for building ui around the consistency model of an application’s database

i've tried so many times to use jq and it has never been faster for me than writing the equivalent json.parse/filter, i don't know what it is about that syntax that just does not click

i feel like i've posted this before, but i always thought this song (The Finest by SOS Band) said "five star heaven" and not "finest i've ever" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-tdCCcfziI (criminally, for a song that seemed to be perpetually playing in the background as a kid, unavailable to buy)

it’s amazing how much bluey and bandit’s interactions are basically bart/homer or lisa/homer depending on the context. very clearly an homage depending on whether we’re meant to interpret bandit failing to pull off being cool or smart

jfc only now realizing that maria rita is the daughter of elis regina

Me, standing atop a cherry-blossom-swept bridge, re-sheathing my katana

once again thinking about the spatial qualities of internet properties https://tweets.generic.cx/1451627942367301640/

halloween idea: dressing up like any cast member from einstein on the beach

feeling a visceral miyazaki-like response to seeing a usb power bank jumpstarting my car successfully

seeing http://worrydream.com/July2023/ i’m struck by the idea that dynamicland as it exists is a project that is defined by its main steward and locale but not by a greater audience that might be capable of deploying it or even interacting with it. his reluctance to general adoption reminds me of the way that people carp about Major Players embrace/extend/extinguish strategy with open protocols at the same time that they try to advocate for retaining control of the protocol.

bret operates like an Artist but it’s hard to square the way he wraps it in the trappings of Academic Research, that is, he’s making his own thing, has a body of work, has a clear Direction and Process but is wholly uninterested in other people generally doing his thing. arguably most researchers are not super invested in ‘a working dialog’ with some random crank with a github account, but it’s, i think, telling, that nobody has been invested enough to try to reproduce the DL Magic™ and he seems uninterested in it becoming an actual general purpose environment, more than he’s interested in it being his own kind of Warhol Factory (or parc, yes, yes, i know).

in the sense that DL has felt unsatisfying, it’s probably largely to do with the tension between it being very obviously a working Studio centered around bret’s practice but attempting to operate like a research group.

hilarious to speculate as to why my post settings on my phone have been set to “unlisted” for god knows how long, replying to random accts in the last two weeks and crickets

thinking about how i once proposed that we name a grad studio book "repetition equals emphasis"