Thursday, March 2, 2023

baty.net is back on WordPress and I don't want to talk about it.

Oh, and daily.baty.net is back in Tinderbox, so there.

Blog post: Here we go again

I remain firmly in the camp that thinks SPAs and React were a bad idea: The Great Gaslighting of the JavaScript Era

Some personal news: LinkedIn is cringe AF

Have you recently logged on to LinkedIn only to find that the kid from your high school who never left your hometown is now authoring thought leadership on neuroscience?

Welcome to the 10th circle of hell: your LinkedIn feed. It’s chaos in there — a mishmash of bragging, oversharing, and patronizing, all inexplicably written in haiku form.

I hate LinkedIn

I've added a little icon to the navigation which links to my Mastodon profile, like this:

I wrote in my other blog this morning:

I'm thinking I should work on optimizing my Emacs/Eleventy blog tooling rather than spreading things too thin with things like Drummer.

I'm not sure this is such a great idea. Emacs knowledge is transferable to many other types of tasks. On the other hand, Eleventy knowledge is transferable, well, almost nowhere.

I'm writing this in Tinderbox. I'm pretty good at Tinderbox. It's useful for nearly anything that involves text. Maybe my time should be spent here instead.