I’ve been spinning my wheels on UI stuff for a few days now, so I finally gave up and started compiling my own UI library. No idea if it’ll go anywhere or be useful to literally anyone including me. Based on shadcn-svelte but with my own opinionated layer on top.

OK, is there a good tool out there for running multiple containers on a server? I’m trying to do Docker Compose in the CLI, but it feels like I’m having to hold too much context to use it well and I keep shooting myself in the foot. Do I need to just work smarter, or is there a better thing?

I’m starting to get good at Keynote animations. Stay tuned for my 1-minute explainer on en💩ification/platform decay.

I had no idea the market for Intel Macs was so bad now.

Open questions: How was the model for Apple’s generative images trained? How much energy is the cloud compute using?

Unexpected potential upside: let’s put gen AI in the iPhone and Macs, build it into all that, so that it becomes as cringe as Word Art.

I can’t remember another time that I’ve avoided reading one of @gruber@mastodon.social’s articles, but here we are. The way life is for me right now, I need the childlike surprises on Monday.

Just got laid off. Not sure what my immediate moves are, but I’m listening for opportunities.

My friend’s kickstarter to make a children’s book about South Carolina plants and animals just needs a little bit more support. Anyone interested?

The problem with mic-dropping a zoom meeting is you don’t get to see people’s reactions.

I’m working on a fictional universe… and I’m thinking of making the website a point-and-click adventure like I don’t have anything else to work on.

One thing I’m trying to learn: it’s ok to take breaks. It’s ok to be slow. Even if I already feel like I’m behind.

Smolblog isn’t a startup. I’m not burning runway. The features that really matter will still matter a year from now.

Take time and rest.

I realized what irks me about some tech: the shoehorning of one tech into another (server-side JS, Not-SQL databases, anti-cascading CSS) shows unwillingness to learn the other tech. Experimentation or time constraints are valid, but don’t claim that it “fixes” something that’s not even understood.

Y’all whippersnappers and your Tailwinds and your server-side rendering like you’re allergic to CSS and PHP. Y’all never had to use font tags inside of every paragraph or try seeing which table property will actually change the background color or transcribe your angst from your YakBak to your LJ.

Really appreciated this article by Dan Moren on regulation and the App Store:

Let’s not root for Apple to win—let’s root for Apple to do better.

A good rule to remember with any corporation. See also: Dropout’s adventure with Ticketmaster’s Dynamic Pricing.

Messy space, messy brain. Time to clean the office!

Are there any good electric cars coming out in the USA that aren’t crossovers or straight-up SUVs?

(I know the Mini Electric exists, but I’m hoping for at least 200mi of range.)

Currently in Smolblog, I don’t like how much boilerplate there is around Content Types (and CRUD operations in general). I’ve gotten close to a good abstraction a few times. But something in my brain just isn’t clicking.

Maybe I just need to sleep on it. Again.

From Trevor Flowers:

I wish more people who are worried about FOSS supply side attacks would realize that universal basic income and free healthcare would result in an almost infinite stream of excellent software from people who care more about quality than profit.

I’m increasingly convinced we need this.

Interesting choice for ESPN to add commercial breaks (“we’ll pick up right where we left off”) to an F1 race that everyone’s going to be watching on DVR anyway (and thus skipping said commercials). What weird kind of contractual obligation is this? 🏎️

Just sent out the first set of private beta invites for Smolblog. 😬

I will have made the first public post about Smolblog five years ago this May.

Let’s see if I can’t get to Open Beta by then.

And it’s not even consistent? Like my logs are full of rejected inbox requests because the Delete messages are signed with public keys that don’t exist because they belong to the account ostensibly being deleted!

I’ve been “almost done” for a month now. 🫠

ActivityPub might not be complicated, but trying to figure out all the little nitpicks with Mastodon that if you don’t do just right means nothing works is almost enough to make me give up on the whole thing.

Count me in with people calling large-context machine learning models “spicy autocorrect” instead of “AI.” That being said…

It’s getting to the point where it doesn’t matter how good it actually is, just that it’ll be good enough for lots of people to be out of work. What are we doing about that?

Did beta work using smol.blog. Production server is Smolblog.com, but with handles on smol.blog…

Except mastodon.social cached the URLs and, even with the webfinger changes, only talks to smol.blog. With the old IDs.

sigh