alan
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non-stop music in the headphones working to make content more portable at https://neodoc.style | @neodoc.style working to make websites more dynamic at https://bittyjs.com
Sometimes I open a website with dark mode and I think, "Oh, I like the really subtle abstract shapes the have in the backgrou- no, wait, I just need to clean my screen."
i wrote an intro for NeoDoc (which is a content format) and why I think it's a good fit for the atmosphere on the community discourse server if you're into that kind of thing discourse.atmosphere.community/t/neodoc-a-c...
NeoDoc [A Content Format] and The Atmosphere
-- prelude This post is written in NeoDoc to provide an example of what the format looks like. A version with syntax highlighting and live links is available >> here | https://neodoc.style/blog/neo...
discourse.atmosphere.community
in the 'just one more edit pass' phase that's currently up to roughly 7 gazillion edit passes
raise your hand if you can never remember on which port each of your dev servers is running on you machine. (I recently heard about caddy which sounds like maybe you can assign names ports on localhost? I gotta check that out)
> Rudy deserves a lot of credit for taking those early risks when it was much harder to build and being the first to prove that it can be done, but it’s getting easier and easier. We are seeing more and more BlueSky and BlackSky-style networks pop up pretty often Shoutout the Original Risk Takers™️
CEO Toni Schneider on protocols, community, and control. www.theverge.com/podcast/9743...
we have some rust parser/combinator goodness in today's "probably nobody but Future Me will ever see this" blog post category Better nom Error Messages with nom_locate al9000.com/rust/nom/bet...
Better nom Error Messages with nom_locate
from alan w smith
al9000.com
finished a post. it links to a page that needs to move before I publish. it won't be that much work, but the context switch makes it feel like it'll be sooo much effort brains are weird
in the pantheon of greatest opening licks, this is close to the top: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aowS...
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - Mary Jane's Last Dance (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by TomPettyVEVO
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airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027
just finished the intro write up for neodoc. it's a content format I'm making an atmosphere lexicon for if you're into that kinda thing
interested in atmosphere content formats, you say? well, allow me to introduce you to neodoc neodoc.style/blog/introdu...
damn you whitespace. damn you to hell. *makes note to find new python linter
currently in the "how much of a manifesto do I want to make this" part of writing an intro post for @neodoc.style I'm leaning towards more rather than less
have y'all heard give it time by goose? it's a perfect get-going-in-the-morning-so-you-can-take-on-the-world song www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF2Q...
Goose - Give It Time (Official Video)
YouTube video by GooseBandVEVO
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here's a fun way I just discovered to create interesting bugs: add a space to the end of a file name after the extension "what do you mean you can't find the file?!! it's right there!"
in not-surprising-news-at-all, the 16th time you write a parser it goes way faster. especially when you're not trying to learn rust at the same time like you were on the first one.
a little groove to lighten your mood: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RR9l...
Good Food
YouTube video by The Soul Investigators - Topic
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back on repeat in the headphones www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDIK...
The 1975 - Menswear
YouTube video by The 1975
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film you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. hard mode: no star trek, star wars, lotr, marvel, disney or ghibli.
film you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. hard mode: no star trek, star wars, lotr, marvel, disney or ghibli.
gonna live stream some work on @neodoc.style - getting the parser extracted from by static site generator www.twitch.tv/theidofalan
it's been 0 days since I spent twenty minutes trying to figure out why a change wasn't showing up in dev only to figure out I was looking at prod