I missed a couple weeks here because life is kicking my ass. Of course that's exactly the kind of thing that makes me need to do stuff like this newsletter. Putting this together reminds me of all the awesome stuff that's out in the world and the wonderful ways we can all connect and share it. It gives me hope.
Now, on with the cool shit, right?
no shit.
Okay, you know how clothes shopping is awful? And how nothing ever fits right? And it definitely never looks as good on you than it did on that celebrity? I present to you: the answer to this perpetual problem.
Covers, Vol. 1 - Sleeping At Last
So, Sleeping At Last makes some wonderful, dreamy music. His stuff is relaxing and smooth, it's background music, but careful listening yields rewards in his sensitive writing and performance. He was commissioned to do a series of covers for Grey's Anatomy and they're lovely. Spotify links, etc. on the site.
JS99'er
When I was a kid in the 80's everyone had Commodore 64s and Ataris. But not me. No, my dad decided to be the weird one and got us a TI-99/4A. We played Parsec and I got to learn BASIC and we even had the fancy voice emulator that was unique to this little computer. Guess what. I still own it. It's in my basement right now. It's not really functional though, so imagine how thrilled I was to find that someone has emulated in with JavaScript including, yes you guessed it, dear old Parsec.
The Manifesto Project
The Cult of Done is one of those manifestos for living and getting things, well, done that got everyone's attention a few years back and it's still one of my favorites. This site offers a whole batch of other manifestos that you can choose to adhere to for an hour, a day, a lifetime. I think a lot of these are better used as inspiration for personal reflection than as an inflexible constraint for living one's life, but YMMV. Also interesting is the absence on the list of the
Holstee manifesto, which is another favorite.
THE TECH THING
Does programming in general become easier to read, write and understand as you gain experience?
The short answer, of course, is "No", but the reason this question and answer on StackOverflow's Software Engineering portal is important is it goes well beyond that brief answer and instead provides insight into how each time we level up our skills, the bar keeps going up, and that's a good thing.