I’m thinking about creating a new space for bookmarks on my website. Maybe mixed with some kind of blogroll or something like that.

But for now, I’m going to share a few good reads from last week:

• https://ranprieur.com/essays/dropout.html#HTDO
  Title: How to Drop Out
• https://registerspill.thorstenball.com/p/the-most-powerful-law-in-software
  Title: The Most Powerful Law in Software - by Thorsten Ball
  Description: Earthly constraints & Conway's Law
• http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
  Title: How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
• https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html
  Title: How to Report Bugs Effectively
• https://kristoff.it/blog/simple-not-just-easy
  Title: I Want Simple, Not Just Easy | Loris Cro’s Blog
  Description: You’ve surely read plenty about how simple is good, but what’s wrong with easy?

This track is so ominous… 💛

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOhpTxcUxy0

RIP Kevin Mitnick 😭

It’s crazy that whenever a new “social media” platform arrives, people can’t resist to jump right into it. Like, literally in the same minute. Especially the people who complain the most about the condition of all available options right now.

- Oh, social media are so bad, we need to cancel our accounts RIGHT NOW!
- (5 minutes later) Oh, Threads is here! I’m XYZ on it, please follow me to get in touch!

Come on, people… start a blog.

Late at night I love to listen to Carbon Based Lifeforms — VLA.

Warning: another rant ahead.

I’m so tired of omnipresent animations and gradients on all “modern” websites. Take an example of Stripe, they have just released stripe.com/enterprise which lags as hell on my quite fast M1 Macbook Air. This machine has a lot of power but still struggles with the website.

I don’t get why there is a need for such things. I know that Stripe always has been a playground for these kinds of experiments but after all these years it seems to be boring and unnecessary. It doesn’t serve anything but a couple of tweets about how nice website they have… This is madness.

Alan Wake 2 finally got the release date — October 17, 2023. I’m so excited!

I’m also wondering why they have brought a new character to the story — especially when they revealed that Alex Casey will be in this game too.

So, imagine that: you are playing as Alex Casey (who is a version of Max Payne in the world of Alan Wake) and you are looking for Alan Wake. This is so meta on too many levels, that I don’t understand why they didn’t come with that… Maybe they are holding this concept for the third installment. I hope so.

EDIT: Oh, after watching Alan Wake: Return I have learned more about who Saga is and why we probably won’t play as Alex anytime soon, yikes.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0vNoRhuV_I

After 8 years since the show started and almost 4 years after the last episode aired — Mr. Robot, Vol. 8 (OST) finally has been released ♥️

Tweets like this one remind me about the meme about putting every possible technology into your blog with only one post.

This is the current state of the modern web development…

Source: https://twitter.com/rauchg/status/1652093972117073920

I’ve started building my own Nvim config from scratch. While it’s quite hard to learn this massive setup, I think this will help me to keep myself sane and busy because it’s something new, something else… Something interesting!