They drove that car as far as they could
Abandoned it out West
Split up on a dark sad night
Both agreeing it was bestShe turned around to look at him
As he was walkin’ away
She said this can’t be the end
“We’ll meet again someday on the avenue”Tangled Up In Blue
The current feed structure on my website is not appropriate. I wanted a place to publish more often, but it doesn’t fit the structure. It’s disorganized.
So I’m going to combine the /feed with /fieldnotes, and that way form one big feed. Will, then, use filters for type or tag to show only the relevant ones for that occasion.
The idea is to bring it closer to one of these references:
/feed into /fieldnotestag and type to all notes — that’s gonna take awhile, huh./fieldnotes Page files for the newer layout/feed Page filesRSS feed.A lovely way to take pictures that look very cinematic. Some of the pictures shown in the video, work of Frederik Trovatten:
All rights to the images to Frederik Trovatten.
Over the past few months, I have been using Nova, a native Mac code editor by Panic. Needless to say, if you know anything about Panic, you’ll know that Nova it’s a gorgeous piece of software.
It’s a little effort of mine to “go back to native apps” instead of clogging up my memory from all of these web apps, or Electron wrappers.
Is it working?
Well, that’s debatable.
The main thing about Nova is that I was very used to VSCode, and many of the shortcuts are different from one to the other, so there’s an adjusting period. Also, the way things function (menus, and other parts of the app) are different. There are not many extensions as well, which is annoying. Very annoying.
But these are all things I can put behind, because the editor is gorgeous, it’s native, and fulfills my development needs—which aren’t many.
Can’t forget the fact that this particular editor does not integrate with AI, or steal your code without your explicit consent. I’m good with a private software I can pay once, and use forever, much like I did with Sketch.
I mean, aren’t you tired of this culture of: you either pay a monthly subscription, or we will steal all your data? And sometimes we will steal your data anyway, even if you’re paying a hefty monthly price.
Lately I’ve been seeing lots of access to my website from sources that are other personal websites, like Onur’s, and Amelie’s:
It makes me think that Colophon is the new webring.
For those who don’t know what a webring is, it is a ring of websites that link to each other, as a way to create organic discoverability.
Interesting thought.
Check out my colophon page, and maybe you’ll find some interesting people referenced in there.
There is no reward for suffering. Take care of yourself if you can.
Rasmus is a cool guy, very knowledgeable in technical skills, like design, and development. I love listening to him talk, it gives me all sorts of ideas, and inspiration.
Some gems:
You’re gonna have to make, not 5 things, but 5,000 things before you do something good.
— Rasmus
I understand where he’s coming from, and judging by my own path, I only really feel like I was “good”—not “great”, “good”—, was 2 years after I’ve been working.
Understand the fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, how memory works. These are helpful to understand what’s affordable, and what’s expensive to do in a screen.
— Rasmus
That’s the conventional path, and, as a designer, I can attest to how good it is to know code.
At 8pm, the kids have gone to bed, and then I have 2 hours that are holy to me. I don’t have time to think about what to do, so I developed this system where I take notes on my mind, and when I sit down, it’s only execution.
I sit down, and start coding the program, or designing the thing.
— A friend of Rasmus
AI is the fad of the moment.
Little by little, we’re allowing it into our lives, with our smartphones, computers, Alexas, and daily productivity apps, like word processors.
What’s on the other side, though?
For a large part, school and work as we know it has been a simulation of work for some time. Now, teachers, students, bosses, and employees, have AI. Why would you believe that you, my out-simulated human fellow, are able to find meaning in anything?
It seems we have 3 sides on this story:
It’s easy to blame AI, or the creators of it, and even try to “forbid” them of opening this Pandora’s Box. It’ll be impossible, though.
Just like the car, the computer, the internet, and so many other technologies, AI is inevitable. It‘s here. And it’s getting better by the second.
If artificial intelligence frees us from business as usual, what will we do with all our free time? Play chess? Paint in oil? Compose symphonies? Read a printed book? Write on paper? Maybe we do nothing. Maybe we just take it easy. Or maybe it’s time to get real.
- We need to rethink school and work.
- We need to rethink how we spend our free time.
- We need to observe AI now, as it still makes mistakes and reveals through its bugs how it works.
That’s a great read by iA.
I, for one, am glad they’re not implementing AI into their apps.
Portuguese article by my friend Hugo.
Scroll Snap is a CSS property that allows you to snap the items inside of a scollable container. It makes it easier to create screens like Netflix’s. And it’s a native CSS attribute.
For whatever reason, I struggled with writing “blog posts”. I felt like blog posts had to be complete, good, pieces of writing with structural elements like introductions and conclusions and/or a comprehensive narrative. Then I discovered the concept of digital gardening via Joel Hooks. I started thinking about my notes as works in progress, learning in public rather than complete pieces of work. The mental shift helped me quit overthinking about what I published.
Write for yourself:
If I sit down and write in the mindset of “this is a post for other people to consume”, I start overthinking and overediting. So now I write just for myself.