2024
Bit too heavy in the end for me but .. tldr - Rasputin was a sexual predator, we know this, but the times he lived in were fascinating : Rasputin by Douglas Smith 📚
GA4… GTM… Consent Mode v2.. GA… BiqQuery… you can all get in the sea 🌊
Another AI enabled glasses product. Although this one looks like it’s been made for humans, which is refreshing: https://brilliant.xyz
This is a well-written manifesto on JS based web development: ahastack.dev
We use Astro for wonderbly.com with some React for interactivity and it does feels like the square-peg in the Astro’s round-hole.
The more I read about htmx the more I want to join its hype train :D
“Things can only get better” (famously used by UK Labour in 97) just came on radio. Got me fired up for a general election, we need one!
Currently reading: October, October by Katya Balen 📚
Oooh this is a good one, kids are hooked
Year in books for 2023
I actually finished more than this but only started tracking recently.
Top of the fiction list is surely Lessons followed closely Bonfire of the Vanities.
Barrow’s Boys wins my non fiction list - an inspiring true tale of a daring and fanatic devotion to adventure and science.
