It’s just someone taking two things they love and putting them together. They’ve clearly put effort and thought into it. Their whole channel is full of similar stuff. It’s a beautiful thing and I used to run into little clusters of niche communities via related video recommendations all the time. Related videos becoming personalized was honestly a big downgrade in what YouTube was. The enshitification ran deep.

Morning meeting prep:

• take meds
• bagel
• write overview of new gradual code migration project
• skibidi toilet 9/11
• walk the dog

My brain is broken. Please sweep it up when you’re done with it.

I will gladly explain TCP as long you don’t want me to go into much detail

There’s so much stuff that would feel weird and stereotype-y to see someone else do and think, “they must be trans!” but when I think back on myself doing them, my only thought is, “oh, so that’s what that was about.”

I’ve been really into serverless recently. Specifically, I’ve been running the T3 stack on Vercel. There are several reasons:

1. I can bootstrap and deploy an app with full stack type safety, db, and auth in under 30 minutes.
2. I have a tendency to rent a server, abandon the project, and forget to cancel. Meanwhile, most serverless providers have generous free tiers.
3. I think it encourages a more decoupled architecture, which is just more maintainable in the long run.

That said, I’m tired of the patterns React encourages. I’m tired of the fact that it requires so much glue code to get things to work inside its model. I’m tired of prop drilling. I’m tired of the hype beast cycle. I’m tired of build steps and weird edge cases with server side rendering and shitty code maps. Now everyone’s talking about server functions and I’m just looking to get off the hype train. I’m tired of running projects from last year and being inundated with security warnings and having upgrades always cascade giant failures for inscrutable reasons.

Now, having used HTMX a bit and seen that their own repo is literally a 3k line vanilla JavaScript file with zero dependencies, it’s making me remember how much less tooling was required to throw together a simple website when I first started. You put a file in a directory. People would request the file. They would get the file, byte-per-byte.

I’m not saying I’m wanting to return to monke and just run LAMP on bare metal. I remember all the bullshit that came with that, too. But I really feel like there’s a middle ground to be had where all this modern deploy tooling can be used without 20 layers of abstraction. And without sacrificing type safety. It really feels more achievable than it’s been in a while, to build projects that don’t turn to mud after a couple years, but also don’t big you down and get in your way while you’re trying to iterate on ideas.

You don’t even know

I’ve tried to go without my phone more often and get out of the habit of having something constantly on in the background but I find myself just getting into this state where nothing is even vaguely pleasant, where I can’t find motivation to move, or where I pick up my phone without even realizing what I’m doing.

Is the answer meditation and exercise? It’s meditation and exercise isn’t it?