Had a great day playing Pro’s Day at Elderslie Golf Club with my dad, uncle and Stuart. Not quite in the running for over all winners but a great day nonetheless.
📷 day 6 - contrast
📷 day 5 - reflection
📷 day 4 - nostalgia
I found myself locked out of a recent GitLab free account I created for a specific purpose. Frustratingly, I have yet to be informed why my account was closed, and there has been no communication from GitLab. I’ve since recreated everything in GitHub. To be locked out without any communication is poor.
📷 day 3 - shadow
📷 day 2 - curve
📷 day 1 - tree
Web development like it's 2009
I am in favour of Simon Willison’s “no build frontend” web development approach.
If you’ve found web development frustrating over the past 5-10 years, here’s something that has worked great for me: give yourself permission to avoid any form of frontend build system (so no npm / React / TypeScript / JSX / Babel / Vite / Tailwind etc) and code in HTML and JavaScript like it’s 2009.
I’ve been building Writeabout in Sinatra, and I’ve reached the point where I need to add a bit of JavaScript to allow the changing of the light, dark, and system themes. I already have these implemented in the original Rails code as Stimulus controllers, but I’m sure it won’t be too much work to rewrite them as plain old JavaScript.
I don’t have a favourable opinion of frontend web development. I’ve always found it unnecessarily complicated and constantly changing, but rarely for the better. For the last few years, I’ve used TailwindCSS because its build step in Rails applications is minimal—the productivity gains outweigh the added complexity. Beyond small learning projects, I’ve resisted adopting anything like React or TypeScript.
I love blog posts like this. It’s about the benefits of a pen and a notebook for software developers.
That post led to another post by the author about how they take notes at work as a software developer and a few others I have read.
Definitely a blog worth subscribing to.