Notes

3: Less by Andrew Sean Greer
A brief but touching book about an aging gay man dealing with is insecurities, anxieties and sense of purpose? Well of course I loved it.

Beginning the absolutely cursed idea of cross posting webdev stuff to linkedin

4: On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
This was very beautiful and touching, but I found the style of writing a little opaque at times.

Took me awhile to get this css working exactly how I wanted without break points. #webdev #css

This post is finally live:
joehart.co.uk/posts/books-i-re

It’s nice, but I’m not really sure why apple have launched their new app “FreeForm”

All hail calc and clamp, our css saviours.

Me on Jan 1st:
"I’ll just write a short post about the books I read in 2022, that shouldn’t take long and should kick off the writing habit by the end of the week!

Jan 22nd:
joehart.co.uk/posts/books-i-re

#blog #books #reading

Significant oof, say what you want about amazon but comixology was one of the few decent places to buy digital comics.

bleedingcool.com/comics/major-

Me as a VC:

Yes, yes, yes that all sounds great. But does your company have a funky neon sign in the office yet?

Beginning the week with a new programming buddy

Are there any relatively high level and easy to use UK traintime APIs? I’m looking at the offical nation rail Darwin Push Feed and it seems a bit too low level for what I need. #api #trains #nationalRail

It’s happening, I’m giving Webstorm a go. Let’s see what happens.

RRR was just an absolutely wild experience, especially at the Prince Charles, electric crowd of cheering and clapping.

2: Can’t We Just Print More Money? by The Bank Of England

I commend the authors goals in trying to make economics more accessible but they’ve ended up with a strange mix of too much explanation and too little in different cases.

60% of the book is an over the top explanation of GCSE level Supply/Demand and then the final few chapters are a too brief explanation of QE, central banks etc. I fear this really will just take people to the first peak of the Dunning–Kruger Graph.

1: The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien (1954)

I have tried to read this a few times in my life. Absolutely love the Movies and have usually found the original book a slog. This time I made it through it and yes it was really good but my main thought throughout it is “Wow Fran Walsh, Phillipa Boynes and Peter Jackson adapted this really fucking well”.

Will eventually finish the series, but am desperate for almost anything else after finishing.

I cannot describe how hyped I am to try this. Heinz cream of tomato soup was an absolute childhood core memory.

Fingers crossed this is as good!

Books I’ve Read in 2023 toot to reply to as I go through the year. #books #readingChallenge

Me whenever I start looking at tailwind stuff:

What mastodon clients are folks using on desktop? A web app? A native app? On iOS I really like metatext. On desktop I find the normal web app a bit meh.

Playing around with some native mac clients but nothing jumps out at me as joyous to use.