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Leslie Lamport on Thinking

Amazing episode of Changelog Interviews with an amazing line from Leslie Lamport. If you're not writing and thinking, you're just thinking about it.

Consistency Originality Gratification

I've recently discovered Indieblog which provides an index of independent blog feeds across the internet and a random button to go an article on any of them. Through that I've foun...

Conversational affordances

Listening to JSParty introduced me to an excellent article Good conversations have lots of doorknobs. The most exciting bits was the concept of conversational affordances and how ...

Presence and Souls

Listened to two fantastic podcasts today Rick Glassman and The Fundamentalists The most interesting tidbits being Harry Mack stating Being true to your self is about being present...

Rap Theory & Practice

YouTube's algorithm recommended a fascinating lecture from MIT by Lupe Fiasco Lupe Fiasco presents “Rap Theory & Practice: an Introduction” Of which the most compelling aspects...

The 1975 Interview

The YouTube algorithm recommended The 1975: ‘Being Funny In a Foreign Language’ Interview | Apple Music of which I've developed a great deal of respect for Matt Healy, his outlook ...

Deriving Deserialize on Structs as Arrays

Was watching Decrusted: Serde and found out when you derive #[serde(Deserialize, Serialize)] it can be to an array as opposed to a mapping of some key:value. This is especially hel...

impl anyhow Errors into Axum Responses

Been playing around with reimplementing this site using axum and maud, using incremental static generation. Took my eyes awhile to see the axum example of how to convert anyhow err...

Sympathy vs Empathy

Today's debate was about the difference between sympathy and empathy. The best explanation we reached was the following: You're sad because you lost your chocolate. Sympathy is th...

Iterator Chaining

Trying out Simon Willison's suggestion about what to blog about. This Reddit Comment TIL, chaining iterators in rust doesn't mean that each operation happens on the entire list in ...