Chuck Grimmett

Links I like

  • Likes Summary trends of 2023 by Tyler Cowen.

  • Likes Cold-Bend Hardwood: Why and How by Lost Art Press.

  • Likes Mechanical Watch – Bartosz Ciechanowski by Bartosz Ciechanowski.

  • Likes A weekly note by Jeremy Felt.

  • Likes Lena by qntm.

  • If we’re going to promote open standards, they actually have to be open.

    I’m with Gavin, I’m not concerned. But for a different reason: Here is their integration timeline. All those engineers, and still a year of work. They aren’t taking over the fediverse.

  • Likes What’s in My Bag, 2023 by Matt Mullenweg.

  • Most software is bad. I neither know why, nor how to solve the problem. Instead, the best I have to offer is a technique to keep the badness away for a while: friction logs.

    Friction logs are what they sound: a detailed log of everything that caused friction when using a product. This post teaches you how to make one.

  • Likes My WordPress plugin list by Jeremy Felt.

  • Likes Plugin Inventory, 2023 by Nick Simson.

  • The revolutionary ideas that empowered the Web

    A simpler approach to building applications on the Web and beyond with htmx and Hyperview

    Enhancing web applications without using SPA frameworks

  • Interesting project from Mozilla. Save every webpage you visit to a file on your machine and then ingest it in a local LLM. Could lead to a whole new level of highly tailored responses just for you.

  • Apps that let you control your own data.

  • Tomorrow the sun will rise at 7:50am, same as today. The world is slowing for the solstice.

    h/t Jeremy Felt

  • Cory Doctorow has a yearly tradition of recording a podcast with his daughter to discuss her hobbies, TV shows, online habits, musical favorites, and have a singalong. I love that!