I’m way being on these notes. On the last note, I talked about tracking notes not per month but as they come so I ended building a tool for it: souvenirs-on.pages.dev, which requires its own post.

Art: Pen Plotting by Adam Fuhrer

Pen plotting looks like a way to combine art and code.

The act of turning digital art into something tangible has felt really rewarding.

Check out Adam’s store for more of his work.

Article: On quality software

Another analogy. Great software is like a volume knob on an old hi-fi music system that feels well-tempered, well-oiled, with a satisfying touch, providing precision, reliability, and control. These knobs were a real sensation to touch and operate. Did they work better than standard knobs? Not really. Did they make the music sound better than crappy volume knobs? Not at all.

Article: The Copenhagen Book by Pilcrow

By the creator of lucia auth. It explains authentication concepts (for the web) such as cookies, sessions, tokens, and more.

Article: Is Making Websites Hard, Or Do We Make It Hard? Or Is It Some of Both? by Jim Nielsen

organizational discipline on behalf of a business to say, “It’s ok if our implementation is ‘basic’ but functional.”

You think people will judge you if your website doesn’t look and feel like a “modern” website. […] But you know what they’ll judge you even more for? If it doesn’t even work.

Article: Simplify Dark Mode w/ Radix Colors & Tailwind

Tailwind doesn’t generate dark mode from the colors you’ve used. This article explains how to use Radix Colors to generate light and dark mode colors.

Article: My Reusable GitHub Actions Workflows by Stefan Zweifel

You can reference a workflow from another repository in your own repository.

jobs:
  pint:
    uses: stefanzweifel/reusable-workflows/.github/workflows/laravel-pint-fixer.yml@main

Article: There is no cookie banner law

The EU does not mandate cookie banners. Companies do.

Article: Language and Time Perception

Swedish and English speakers, for example, tend to think of time in terms of distance—what a long day, we say.

Spanish and Greek speakers, on the other hand, tend to think of time in terms of volume—what a full day, they exclaim.

The experiment involves a moving line (distance), and a cup filling up (volume).