It’s mesmerizing how an appeal to human nature can also be an appeal to contradiction itself. Humans operate in perpetual extremes and contradictions — if everyone wants decentralization today, they’ll eventually want centralization tomorrow, and vice versa. Philosophically, it’s an airtight appeal because the contradiction can be anything time/history allows.

old school cool funk

A CSS and HTML expert in the art is a marvel. Think less development and more engineering. The process of speedily assembling the minimum set of markup and style with maximum degrees of freedom. Like you know, a bassist can develop a new playing style, but there’s an engineering path where it’s perfected. OpenUI might end eternal widget development hell?

Can’t beat the hunch that once web components get widespread application there’ll be something like “micro apps”. Interoperable components between all js frameworks or something.

There’s this crow outside that insists on plucking coconuts. A while back I was in a coconut tree (don’t ask), and there it was — a crow setting up its nest. I assisted by creating more space and since then it’s been obsessed with plucking coconuts. It’s dropping young and old ones faster than I’m willing to deal with them. 4 in the last two hours..

I’ve been doing a bit of research into XSLT. There was a time where XSLT was almost removed from chromium. The early consensus was that “XSLT is failure wrapped in pain” :-) imo, it’s good as a no build/compilation XML transformer and has fp vibes but way over engineered.

I know of four PHP static site generators.

1. Jigsaw: Laravel Blade templates. Source Code
2. Couscous: Twig templates. Source Code
3. Sculpin: Twig templates. Source Code
4. Spress: Twig templates. Source Code

The key advantage is obvious: dynamicity “technically” comes for free. Feedback/debugging loops “can” be made instantaneous, and scaling to a large output is probably not too difficult.

One downside is that corporate minded developers and consumers online will think you’re a noob for choosing PHP.

Random neo is a nice way to randomly browse Neocities. I’m always on the lookout for sites to add to my rss feed collection. It might be fun to upload a small meme micro blog on there once I get around to adding color/background image customization, if ever.

I might not remember correctly but lxc came out around 2008. Docker in 2013. The lxc commands had the trend of dashes in their name — lxc-attach, lxc-snapshot, lxc-copy and so forth. It had lots of boilerplate and a steep learning curve.

Then lxd arrived (in 2015?) to make everything user friendly. lxd is preferred. I still mostly use lxc out of habit.

After daily driving NixOS and the Nix pm for almost three years, it feels like it’ll be simplified by entities external to the project. It’s still in that academic phase (don’t do this/that) and needs software engineering asap.

That usually involves reducing boilerplate ruthlessly while generalizing/capturing fundamental uses cases (setting implicit best current practices). It’s reminiscent of lxc just before docker arrived for the masses.

btw this blog is served to you by NixOS :-)