Saturday 1st October, 2022 - Hopeless in HCMC
Another week of great javascript, tech and web development links
Hello and welcome to my newsletter!
Another season 2 instalment…
Some podcasts and links, minimal commentary this week because literally everything I say or do gets turned against me at the minute. And random people walking past that I’ve never seen before shush me, even though I’m not saying anything.
Doppelgänger / lookalikes / soundalikes watch:
Michael Cane - Most probably wasn’t him, but he really had the mannerisms and general presence, didn’t look like he was in very good shape, like a tall previously strong grandad
Harrison Ford and son - Again these most likely weren’t HF but the bloke really looked like he had been in some insane fight for your life sort of film like the Fugitive, and the younger version probably in his thirties, was the most similar looking to his father I’ve seen in a long time, it’s surprisingly rare to see father and sons that look so similar
The blokes from the Eurodollar University Podcast sound like they are the blokes from the Coin Talk Podcast, plus incidentally everywhere I look the past few days everyone is called Jay
Also the Podcasts app stopped working after I upgraded iOS to the latest version. I re-installed it after several days of not being able to open it, it’s still not working right. I changed to another Podcast app in the meantime which works fine but I’ve discovered this morning that there is no way to get the episode URLs from inside the app. So unfortunately this week the podcast section doesn’t have actual links, you’ll have to find the episodes yourself. Blame the universe, I am at capacity, and being relentlessly bullied everywhere I go, and nothing works.
One silver lining was discovering that the Podcasts app had secretly stopped showing some of the less mainstream podcasts in my feed. Several shows I checked had been publishing episodes for months but I hadn’t been seeing them in the latest tab (eg Coin Talk, Resident Advisor and others).
Once again ???? signifies links I tried to read, but due to internet connectivity issues was unable to read.
I got the Feeds plugin to my ssg mostly working late last night. I was able to combine the blog, linkblog and podcast feed components into a single component, so that’s quite cool. My back hurts, I’ve been doing a lot of standing recently.
I have to wear earplugs or headphones 24 hours a day at the minute.
Podcasts
Apple Watch Ultra Review: an aspirational debut (Vergecast Podcast) - One of the funniest Vergecast episodes to date, but also a bunch of great tech stuff, I’m actually a bit interested in smart watches now, certainly curious; hilarious detours into Spreadsheets and Shortcuts, I literally broke my cafe serious face several times while listening, and shed a laugh tear, and there is only one thing I want going forward: the iBoat
Elon Musk Takes His Chances in the Court of Chancery (Techdirt Podcast) - The only scenario that fits the facts is that the whole thing is a sham, Elon’s a sham, Twitter’s a sham, the whole tech industry is a sham, they should go to the Court of Scamery
Underwater Penguins and Discord Hymns (Coin Talk Podcast)
Daniel Negreanu: Poker Ep#324 (Lex Fridman Podcast)
Kiwi Farms, Cloudflare and Infrastructure Content Moderation (Techdirt Podcast)
Central Banks Digital Currencies vs Bitcoin w/ Sam Callahan BTC097 (We Study Billionaires - Bitcoin Podcast)
How the Rosenhan Experiment Worked (Stuff You Should Know)
Breaking Britain Ep#293 - I am the one who knocks - Say my name (it isn’t Jay) (Eurodollar University Podcast) https://share.transistor.fm/s/0ddcf352
Links
tc39/proposal-extractors: Extractors for ECMAScript https://github.com/tc39/proposal-extractors
React I Love You, But You're Bringing Me Down https://marmelab.com/blog/2022/09/20/react-i-love-you.html
Nasa spacecraft lining up to smash into an asteroid https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-63006717
Isolates, microVMs, and WebAssembly https://notes.crmarsh.com/isolates-microvms-and-webassembly
The first Zero Trust SIM https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-first-zero-trust-sim
IMF openly criticises UK government tax plans https://www.bbc.com/news/business-63051702
???? Don’t worry, Nobody is Replacing Node, not Even Bun and Even less Deno https://blog.bitsrc.io/dont-worry-nobody-is-replacing-node-js-not-even-bun-and-even-less-deno-4e7148cff78
???? Writing composable SQL using JavaScript https://contra.com/p/AqZWWoUB-writing-composable-sql-using-java-script
A Step-by-Step Guide to Our Solar System’s Demise https://nautil.us/a-step-by-step-guide-to-our-solar-systems-demise-239245/
That’s all from me…
Best reguards,
Mark
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