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This reminded me of work in general, years ago I was thinking how nursery was so expensive. I could try and work harder, earn more, to pay for nursery - or just quit and look after my children. If the goal was making money to look after my children, why make it difficult?

p.s. LOVE the animated header on this blog

Anecdotally, I have 3 young kids who sometimes all talk to me at once. It's impossible to process, but with 2, I've noticed it IS kinda possible process.

This is a great post. I've been advocating this for over a decade.

The most important conversations are not always the ones that appear on the agenda. They are the ones that happen before the formal session begins, in the ten minutes after it ends, in the corridor while people are putting on their coats. These are not peripheral to the group’s work. They are often where the group’s actual thinking takes place.

This is a core belief. One, in fact, that at my last workplace, we understood well and designed for. After client meetings, we would walk clients slowly back though the kitchen and pause for a while there, splitting up into informal chats, before seeing them out of the door. Afterwards, we would quickly compare notes on all the things they said on the way out. These things were often the most important steers for the project.

I watched Possession (1981) a few weeks back. One of the weirdest films I’ve ever seen. His acting was so different from his later stuff.

Years ago I was stuck on a tricky JS bug, I Googled it and ended up on a decent answer on StackOverflow. I implemented it, and it worked! I went back to SO and upvoted the answer, and it said "You can't upvote your own answer" Huh!??? Yes, it was my own answer from years back. Thanks, me!

Glad I left a trace.

Oh wow, I hadn't seen inuxdaw.org - similar concept. Next plan is a weekly (automated) newsletter for the latest plugins. But really just to keep it growing and keep feeding it. I actually love browsing plugin sites, so I built a chrome extension that can automatically add a plugin from a page I'm on. I have to choose the image and videos though.

I recently built a physics-driven auto-panner based on PONG, so I can also play PONG inside my DAW. https://portwaydsp.com

I also built https://plugins.audio - a Dribbble-esque showcase of audio plugins.

It's been a dream to be able to work in the audio software space. I've been a musician, designer, coder all my life, and had a few moonlights with building audio plugins over the years. But now with AI at hand, I can use it to fill that missing technical requirement while still retaining my domain expertise (music/design).

Lovely. Great attention to detail and a brilliant resource for students.

Nice work! Haven’t seen anything like this before. It makes me happy that people do stuff like this. Small experiments often open up big new design ideas.

These bring back memories. When I was young, my dad was a computer engineer for Olivetti and he used to bring all sorts of weird and wonderful printers and plotters home. We had a drawer of these golf balls in the garage and I used to play with them, throwing them about in the garden. I was fascinated by them.

Pretty happy with Warp so far. The vertical tabs are a game changer, having all my projects down the side and flipping between them (each one having multiple split terminals) works really well compared with horizontal tabs. Looking forward to each update.

As a type nerd, I was very happy with Grammarly swapping my dashes to em dashes. But now everyone associates em dashes with AI, I can no longer enjoy that luxury.

Not millions, but still, they have a point.

Relearning and reconnecting..

Buy the cassette 4-track I had in ‘93 and reconnect with my teenage self - record whole songs on it, not worrying about sound quality and knob tweaking. It is what it is.

They turned it off and on again.

I can't help thinking AI would have done a better job of this image (no disrespect to the artist)

https://time.com/redesign/_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi...

I agree, Jakob

Do I have to turn my VPN off for this?

I know this is bad, and some people's livelihood and lives rely on critical infrastructure, but when these things happen, I sometimes think GOOD!, let's all just take a breather for a minute yeh? Go outside.

It feels like a waste of my time to archive, delete or even read emails if its subject doesn’t look important. I haven’t deleted or archived an email since 2004. There are always 10k+ unread. But I’m fine with that, I glance at the list, then close it. No effort. Works for me. Search is my friend.

Does anyone see multitrack recording happening well in-browser?

Has anyone tried BandLab? Aside from the social slop and recent aggressive advertising, their recording app is super impressive, glitch free, low latency, easy to use and sounds great.

Or will this always be the domain of installable software?

Nuxt can too

1992 what happened?!

This is quite thought provoking in our capitalist world. Fills you with dread that this could actually be a thing.

A blast from the past. There was such a distinct style running through the Flash era.

Thanks for this. I think you're right -> "focus on shipping features instead of changing your tech stack"

Thanks for the in-depth response, much appreciated

Working with a large Vue 3 project and wanting to share some of our components as re-usable web components for other sites to embed...

What would be the benefit of rebuilding these components in Lit over using Vue to build them?

https://vuejs.org/guide/extras/web-components#building-custo...

How do you even browse the web? Is it common for people to disable JavaScript?

Same. I’ve been a coder over 25 years. I love music and am a musician, but I can’t listen to music while coding, I need silence. Too distracting. In fact music is often distracting for me during conversations, if it’s on in the background, say in a shop or bar.