Week 25 of 2024

Weeklies are my notes of things not big enough for a blog post but worthy of being mentioned and linked to. Find all of my Weeklies at /weeklies.

• AI and the Beauty of Human Flaws

  In this interview with Oliver Reichenstein, founder of iA, he shares his insights on LLM generated art and the aesthetics of AI.

• Pair Programming, TDD, and Rotation

  Otávio wrote a post about how their team implements pair programming with rotations and lanes and I’m always fascinated to learn how people make it work.

• Automate 301 Redirects In 11ty

  fLaMEd wrote a great article on how to do redirects with Eleventy on a shared hosting

• Thoughts, thinks, gardens, blogs, wikis, and more

  Otto has returned to blogging which makes me very happy and his most recent post about blogging and sharing incomplete thoughts is very good.

• Having a website isn't about blogging, it's about you

  Shellsharks shares ideas for people who might want to build their own website but not necessarily start blogging. I agree, I think having your own place online is super valuable these days, even if it’s just links to your socials.

• Visual Studio Code extensions are much less secure than browser extensions or even npm packages

  Baldur writes about VS Code’s extension architecture and how it has issues with security and trust.

• Now that we have IndieWeb how are others to find it?

  disassociated discusses how we can make IndieWeb sites and posts more discoverable to people who are not already part of it

• Building a responsive menu with CSS (and no JavaScript)

  Cory wrote a great article about building a responsive menu with CSS.

• The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom – Announcement Trailer – Nintendo Switch

  We’re finally getting a real Zelda game after all these years!

• Not Everything Has To Be For Sale

  Steve (and through reference, Sebastian) wrote about how it’s important to not turn every fun hobby into a monetized hustle.