Got my first food buzz since the last time I was in New Orleans 7 years ago. Awesome that it was from the Soul Food Sunday BBQ & sides from Ella’s down the street. KC BBQ doing its thing, just right smoky, creamy mac & cheese with collards spiked with plenty of vinegar but enough salt & heat to bring it all together in one bite.

Nice to see @snarfed.org work on Bridgy Fed working with Mastodon and Bluesky in TechCrunch

Catching up on my feeds and I see @voxpelli announced a new JS linter. I have wanted to implement a linter for my Eleventy work and with the need to convert to ESM this should be a good time to start.

Well, I didn’t think there was any good new series on righ now and then I found Under the Bridge on Hulu. Lily Gladstone is amazing and it has a kick ass soundtrack.

Inspired by yesterday, taking some time to fix up stuff around the personal site. (also testing where things are with BridgyFed)

The news hit hard. Music has been an important part of my life since my late teens and Steve Albini’s influence on the music I listen to is incalcuable. I’m not a musician and never wanted to be in a band, but over the last couple of years, the last year in particular, I wanted to be like him. Be a fucking earnest professional with a strong set of ethics and to speak up for those that can’t.

I came across this quote in one of the many tributes written over the last day.

“I want to do things in a certain way that I can be proud of, that is sustainable and is fair and equitable to everybody that I interact with. If I can do that, then that’s a success, and success means that I get to do it again tomorrow.”

I’m doing more WP work these days and while it’s been fun to throw in some Jamstack I need to dogfood some WP too. Think I’m going to move to WP.com for hosting. I’m paying $7 a month for bare bones VPS. I learned from Chris Coyier WP.com has GitHub Deployments and when I looked at the pricing annually, it makes sense.

Born & raised in Tampa, over 35 years professionally serving and cooking grouper at every level. Yesterday, thanks to my friends, I was able to get offshore for the first time and catch one.

Also, 10 hours without cell/internet? A++++++ Would do again.

I’m a nobody and my attitudes towards web development have been generally eschewed for the last decade. So it’s been really refreshing to read more folks speak out about the state of the web. I’ve been especially nodding along to Chris Ferdinandi over on his blog, Go Make Things. Like this today, Understanding the Medium.

But the idea that the fix is to remove the need for front-end web professionals to write or understand CSS entirely is patently absurd.

Today’s inner monologe was a debate over whether it would be better to use <aside> instead of <article> for notes—posts without titles. Naming things is hard, writing titles harder. (Would that be the title?) We don’t write titles on social media updates/tweets/skeets/whatever, so why should we on our own sites? Which lead to questioning if articles need titles semantically. And all of that started when I was thinking about permalinks and calling articles with titles “articles” and articles without titles “notes”.

Reading a blog post from a designer I really admire and went to take a look at their markup. Holy divitis Batman! Straight up tailwind soup. No <main>. No <article> just <divs> and <p> all the way down. It’s really hard to want to care about this stuff when people who are really good at it don’t seem to care.

Today I hiked a mile into a nature preserve, then waded out thigh deep into Tampa Bay and caught trout all afternoon. Highly recommend unplugging and recharging. And I’ll get to make more art.

Syndicated on: Bluesky

I really need to remember to pick which hills I’m going to die on sooner.