Andi

Also, if you love film you really need to add the Filmumentaries podcast to your rotation 🙂

Think I’ll stick the PiHole back on the home network tomorrow 🤔

Just remembered Mythic Quest season 4 is available. Time for a brew ☕️

I put JavaScript on my Roomba Vacuum YouTube video by Wes Bos

I put JavaScript on my Roomba.

This might be the stupidest video you watch all week, but I promise you'll either learn something or be entertained.

Full build now up!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jAM...

An illustration of the Serenity ship lifting the T.A.R.D.I.S. off a train with Jane holding on. The Time Job, by John Sumrow

Hello new friends! Thank you for following me from the evil FB empire. Let's be bad guys. 💙⚔️🎨

Really impressed with Codeium for multi-file edits. Need to play with it a bit more though.

Back to work tomorrow. One thing about self employment is Sunday blues aren’t a thing.

Occasional fear of bills on the horizon, sure. But no Sunday blues 😎

Matt Kane Matt Kane's site that looks like it was built in 1991

I am so pleased with how this turned out! On desktop, hover over the bottom left corner. Otherwise close the window and go from there. This is still all zero JS.

“Last day of the holidays”. Watching my new copy of Dog Soldiers in 4k, might follow up with playing some Tomb Raider or Zelda this afternoon.

Happy New Year!

Make this your New Year SEO Resolution (SEO-solution?): Stop believing in SEO fairy tales

Make 2025 the year you learn real SEO. No bullshit, no fairy tales, non-wanky.

https://nikki-pilkington.com/the-non-wanky-seo-course-membership/

File over app is a philosophy: if you want to create digital artifacts that last, they must be files you can control, in formats that are easy to retrieve and read. Use tools that give you this freedom. File over app is an appeal to tool makers: accept that all software is ephemeral, and give people ownership over their data. In the fullness of time, the files you create are more important than the tools you use to create them. Apps are ephemeral, but your files have a chance to last. The ancient temples of Egypt contain hieroglyphs that were chiseled in stone thousands of years ago. The ideas hieroglyphs convey are more important than the type of chisel that was used to carve them. The world is filled with ideas from generations past, transmitted through many mediums, from clay tablets to manuscripts, paintings, sculptures, and tapestries. These artifacts are objects that you can touch, hold, own, store, preserve, and look at. To read something written on paper all you need is eyeballs.

Today, we are creating innumerable digital artifacts, but most of these artifacts are out of our control. They are stored on servers, in databases, gated behind an internet connection, and login to a cloud service. Even the files on your hard drive use proprietary formats that make them incompatible with older systems and other tools. Paraphrasing something I wrote recently: "If you want your writing to still be readable on a computer from the 2060s or 2160s, it’s important that your notes can be read on a computer from the 1960s." You should want the files you create to be durable, not only for posterity, but also for your future self. You never know when you might want to go back to something you created years or decades ago. Don’t lock your data into a format you can’t retrieve. These days I write using an app I help make called Obsidian, but it’s a delusion to think it will last forever. The app will eventually become obsolete. It’s the plain text files I create that are designed to last. Who knows if anyone will want to read them besides me, but future me is enough of an audience to make it worthwhile.

File over app · 2023
stephango.com/file-over-app

HTML for People HTML isn't only for people working in the tech field. It's for everyone. Learn how to make a website from scratch in this beginner friendly web book.

I guess it is time to introduce Bluesky to my latest work, HTML for People.

Anyone can make a website with HTML. No previous coding experience required. I cover everything you need to know to get started in an approachable and friendly way.

And it’s free for all. 🚀

htmlforpeople.com

Thinking my dislike for the Jaguar concept car is because it reminds me of the 90s when software started making gradient creation easy, and you saw them badly done on everything. Apart from that, could be interesting.

Lean Web Club Learn a simpler way to build for the web with HTML, CSS, and vanilla JS. Get instant access to a growing collection of tutorials, projects, structured learning paths, and a supportive developer commun...

Another Black Friday purchase - I’ve joined The Lean Web Club leanwebclub.com

@cferdinandi.bsky.social is the owner, and if you’re not already getting his newsletter you need to sort that out 😎

#WebDevelopment #JavaScript

Haven’t heard of that, I’ll have to track it down! Not my turn to drive apparently, so I’ll see what they’ve got 🍻

Random thought of the afternoon. In the Aliens and Alien Romulus films, what if “get away from her you bitch” is an in-universe pop culture reference like “I’d buy that for a dollar” is in RoboCop 🤔

Oh definitely stout weather 🍻 Think I’m driving tonight so the best I can hope for is Guinness 0.0, but otherwise I’d say Shandon Stout if it’s on tap, Guinness, or if we’re going lager Moretti Sale di Mare. How about you?

Like Desk Accessories in the classic mac days 🙂

- Sorting out some bugs for a client
- Meeting with my business coach
- Walk our dog
- Work on my new website design
- Maybe order a 3D printer 🤔
- Possibly a beer 🍻

Listening to Jean-Michel Jarre for a bit.

Feeling the inevitability of a 3D printer purchase this week 😎

Introduction • The Joy of React Welcome, prospective student! This small collection of lessons is designed to give you a feel for my teaching style, and the way the content is structured. I hope it helps give you a sense of what the...

🏠 I’m having an Open House!

This has become a bit of a tradition for me. Every Black Friday, I select a couple of lessons from my courses and make them public for a few days. This way, potential students can test-drive the content and see if it’s a good fit for them!

The doors have just opened. 😄

How’s the late afternoon panning out?

Progress bars on display 1, BigJetTV on display 2 😎

Accessibility tip: capitalise each word in your hashtags, #LikeThis! This helps visually impaired users, whose assistive technologies will be better able to announce the hashtags as distinct words. And it helps with readability for sighted users, too! #AccessibilityTips #MakeTheWorldAccessible

We create software tools and video-courses for web developers – Beyond Code We focus on building tools that make your life as developer more enjoyable and love sharing our broad knowledge that we gain during this process.

Also in the daily driver toolkit, Herd and Tinkerwell by Beyond Code. They’ve got a Black Friday sale on too, well worth a look. Might treat myself to an Expose license too…

#PHP #WebDevelopment #WordPress #Laravel
beyondco.de

Just picked this up 🙂 Great app!

Ray

That time of year when great deals can be had on tools. Ray by Spatie is currently 30% off (lifetime licenses available on Thursday I think), and if you do anything with PHP it’s priceless for debugging. spatie.be/products/ray #PHP #WordPress #Laravel #WebDev