Notes

First cup, then editor. My brain works best in that order.

Got lucky this morning: yesterday’s bug was fixed in three lines. Sometimes it really is just the break.

One hour, no screen, no earbuds. First nervous, then calm.

The best ideas show up when I don’t force them. A notebook in my pocket is enough.

Reminded again today: subgrid is finally everywhere and I use it far too rarely.

grid-template-rows: subgrid makes layout problems trivial that I would have worked around with display: contents before.

Finally finished it. John Ousterhout writes about complexity like someone who has seen a lot of it.

My takeaway: deep modules beat many small ones. That contradicts a lot of what’s common practice in JavaScript projects.

Hours of steady rain. Tea, blanket, a long article about ship diesels.

Not every day has to be productive.

Server swapped, DNS cutover in under a minute. Caddy makes TLS so easy you almost forget how annoying Let’s Encrypt with Apache used to be.

Migration as backup drill: every time you find out where the backup script lies.

Three minutes of work, six months of quiet. Some maintenance is so undramatic that you keep forgetting about it.

Reminder to self: don’t wait for the squeak.

Reset my CV — this time in Typst instead of LaTeX. Compiles in milliseconds, the syntax feels like a modern language.

For complex scientific documents I’ll stay with LaTeX, but for anything below that, Typst is the more honest choice now.

Cacio e pepe also works with toasted bread crumbs on top instead of parmesan. Not authentic, but surprisingly good.

Cooking is like code — patterns can be swapped as long as the result holds up.

Three hours, after which two drawers are empty and one box went into the recycling.

Any cable you can’t identify goes into the “maybe” box — and the “maybe” box gets thrown out unopened in six months.