Friday 5th August, 2022 - Mid-week special: Fat ankle
Another week of great javascript, tech and web development links
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Another season 2 instalment…
It’s the end of the week, and I’m aware that last week’s issue didn’t make it out. I was sort of hoping to find some time the past few days to do a mid-week special but that didn’t happen.
It’s hardly mid-week now as it’s Friday, but figured I’d just dump out all the links I had collected for last week, without much analysis, aside from any comments I wrote when I stashed the link. A de-cluttering of sorts for me, but there are several really great podcasts and some cool links.
I continue to create a fictional fantasy world where about 10 people create all the podcasts in the entire world in different accents and voices. It’s a sort of fantasy podcast league that I get strong armed into creating by my brain. There’s no way of avoiding it, so might as well lean into it and share it, because you can get some serious thought mileage imagining what crazy scenarios led to the FPL, which is clearly real and not totally bonkers. So maybe that’s entertaining?
My leg is still rather painful, lots of disinfecting and daily dressing the wounds with bandages. Just like last time my ankle has gotten fat. It looks weird and the infected wounds on the knee are gruesome. I hate yellow puss and blood even more than I did before. Bodies are cool how they heal though, just hope the scarring clears up. One day you have literal large holes in your knee, and then some days later you have a collection of purple blotches.
I might get a chance to write a bit about my ssg development in tomorrow’s issue. Quite a lot of interesting forward motion on that side of things. Whether the issue makes it out in time is another matter. Avoiding more injuries is my priority at the minute.
Hoping for more health…
Podcasts
Leopoldo Lopez in activism under autocratic regimes (Conversations with Tyler Podcast) https://cowenconvos.libsyn.com/leopoldo-lopez
Handbook for Sonic Happiness (20000 Hz Podcast) - So many things in this episode hit home for me, I’m very sensitive to sound, looks like I have a variation of the asmr induced sensation talked about in the episode; I get it with music and interesting storylines, especially where there is a recursive pattern, also nearly forgot, David Pierce from the Vergecast Podcast and Dallas Taylor surely must be the same person, I mean the shear quality of the output is a total giveaway, plus they sound the same https://20k.org/episodes/sonichapiness
Hollandandsandbrook (Hardcore History Podcast) - Really enjoy hearing all these guys talking history, counterfactuals, what ifs and just generally hanging out in their element https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/dchhaddendum/ep21-addendum-Hollandansandbrook.mp3
Zooko on privacy and crypto history (Uponly Podcast) - This is the guy that setup zcash, popularised somewhat by a super well produced Radio Lab documentary, he’s had the privacy topic running around his head for several decades now, smart and well spoken guy; also the british bloke interviewing sounds like the guy from the web platform podcast, McCormack’s producer bloke on WBD podcast, and at times a little like Russell Brand https://uponly.tv/zooko-on-privacy-and-crypto-history
Sir Robin Millar - Legendary music producer who went blind while recording Sade (Be my Eyes Podcast) - Great interview, fascinating story, there’s something about his manor that feels similar to the zcash bloke from the uponly episode, different accent but oddly similar in how he structures what he talks about https://thebemyeyespodcast.libsyn.com/the-legendary-music-producer-who-went-blind-while-recording-sade
Links
Senate passes bill to subsidize U.S.-made semiconductor chips - I always used to find chip industry news incredibly boring, but over the last year or so there have been so many developments worldwide that have a huge impact on the tech industry, so I pay attention to the larger shifts now, and $280bn is a pretty big shift, and interestingly there appears to be a push to expand tech in regions across the US, not just in Silicon Valley https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/07/27/senate-chips-funding-bill-pass
Gas prices soar as Russia cuts German supply - Some important geo-politics to be aware of, it will be interesting to see what happens especially in regards to countries stockpiling, there is the possibility that they constrain entire economies before an alternative can be established, you can find out a lot by turning the tap on and off, but it’s in plain sight (only Germany?), how will other countries react? How will the people of Russia react? Lots to learn all round, one of those what-kind-of-world-are-we-living-in moments, no doubt strangeness ahead https://www.bbc.com/news/business-62318376
Two Weeks In, the Webb Space Telescope Is Reshaping Astronomy - “It’s working, and it’s insane” https://www.quantamagazine.org/two-weeks-in-the-webb-space-telescope-is-reshaping-astronomy-20220725
Superstate is a micro state management library for JavaScript apps that is compact enough for prototypes and scales well as your project grows
https://superstate.dev
The 10 Most Common JavaScript Issues Developers Face - https://www.toptal.com/javascript/10-most-common-javascript-mistakes
Node.js: creating ESM-based shell scripts for Unix and Windows https://2ality.com/2022/07/nodejs-esm-shell-scripts.html
How to use Node.js modules in Deno https://reflect.run/articles/how-to-use-node-modules-in-deno
ndaidong/article-parser - Extract main article from given URL with Node.js https://github.com/ndaidong/article-parser
Help pick a syntax for CSS nesting - I’m not so into CSS to have a detailed opinion on these proposals, though my initial impression is that it feels easier in SASS, in most of the examples I found I just preferred the raw CSS; the brackets version feels like too many brackets and the other versions have a punctuation factory vibe going on https://developer.chrome.com/blog/help-css-nesting
Using npm configuration environment variables in package.json - I’ve been trying to find a way to specify branch names for private modules dependencies, so far no luck but this article was useful, I didn’t know about this npm feature https://it.knightnet.org.uk/kb/node-js/npm-configuration-variables
ejs-static-converter - ejs-static-converter allows you to convert a node app that uses the EJS templating engine into a static HTML site, independant from any server code https://www.npmjs.com/package/ejs-static-converter
Solving “The Dangler” Conundrum with Container Queries and :has() (Dave Rupert) https://daverupert.com/2022/07/solving-the-dangler-conundrum-with-has-and-container-queries
That’s all from me…
Best reguards,
Mark
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