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I spent November learning lots of new (to me) web dev stuff but ended up on Bun, Astro, Svelte, Vercel, and Supabase. (More on all that later.) I struggled but got good enough to decide on Astro for the new content-only site I'm starting on today. I do enjoy a cmd-line install experience with personality.

Final bits of the create-astro experience: "Good luck out there, astronaut!"
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Librarians continue to be the best humans. blogs.library.duke.edu/blog/2023/11/30/why-were-dropping-basecamp/

Why We're Dropping Basecamp - Duke University Libraries Blogs
Duke University Libraries Blogs

Why We're Dropping Basecamp - Duke University Libraries Blogs

We at Duke University Libraries have decided to stop using the project management platform, Basecamp, to which we have subscribed for almost a decade. We came to this decision after weighing the level of its use in our organization, which is considerable, against the harms that we see perpetuated by the leadership of Basecamp’s parent … Continue reading Why We’re Dropping Basecamp →

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Last night I discovered LIES, a new project by American Football's Mike and Nate Kinsella. And I learned that Semisonic has a new record out. 🤯

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I'm 4 songs into the LIES record, I like it, it's what you would expect from a Mike Kinsella project but with more electronic elements.

I've only listened to 1 track off the new Semisonic record. It's next.

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This was all predicated by a strange but familiar mode I find myself in just prior to a bout of depression: I can't find music I want to listen to. American Football's LP3, and Kinsella tunes in general, are somehow the ones that can break through in these times.

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I'll admit this is a weird symptom of a coming illness, and I've only recently realized the correlation. For over a decade, until earlier this year, I was on medication to prevent it. I've learned that an hour of zone 2 exercise (for me, has to be on a bicycle or it won't happen) is as effective as medication.

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The kids having the week off school has meant that all my bicycle riding has been with my 9-year-old son, which means it has been in zone 1. Which means whatever brain chemicals are generated by the zone 2+ riding, aren't.

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If you hope your kid will be into the same stuff you are, which is reasonable because it does make having fun hanging out with them easier, be careful what you wish for.

If he continues with the cycling, I assume there will be a brief sweet spot when he rides at my level, after which he will get faster than me and not want to ride with me anymore. 😅

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When did horizontally-scrolled content areas become ubiquitous and can we go back to just prior to then?

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One problem with being 48 (and I assume this applies to other non-age-related health conditions) is: having a second donut from the dozen your FIL so nicely brought over on Thanksgiving morning is a poor tactical decision with the potential to ruin your entire day.