Notes

About design, architecture and the invisible decisions behind everyday things. Roman Mars has a voice like warm tea.

Episode on the history of emergency exit signs recommended — sounds boring, isn’t.

Ran my first 18 km today. Legs feel like wood, head is clear.

In May I want the full 21.1 km in one go. Plan is in place, now just follow it.

I’ve had patterns.dev open and closed again for two years. Today I went through the rendering patterns systematically.

ISR, streaming SSR, islands — all terms you’ve picked up somewhere, but rarely seen in one coherent text.

Office noise level cut in half since switching to silent linear switches. The hands need three days, then it feels like nothing changed.

Ergonomics is mostly habituation — but the first days are rough.

I was supposed to be in Bangkok today. I’m not.

March to May is my window. Somewhere inside it I cut out a month, sometimes five weeks, and fly to Southeast Asia. Heat, noise, temples, street food. A reset I quietly look forward to all year.

This year geopolitics got in the way. Not the slowly seeping kind of news, but the kind where suddenly the airline’s cancellation email is sitting in your inbox. At some point you stop searching for alternative flights and accept it: the trip won’t be a trip this year.

So here I am. A different sky. That’s fine.

The disappointment is still there. Not dramatic — more the variant that arises when something has been firmly planned into the year and then doesn’t happen, without you having contributed anything to it. You pack the feeling away and find something else for Sunday.

Maybe next year. Or sooner — October, November are still ahead. Different light, different season.

Maybe this year will turn into something after all.

Three weeks of 6 am starts. First week brutal, second week neutral, third week I’m enjoying the silence before seven.

The honest insight: getting up early isn’t the problem, going to bed early is.

The question goes through one team in my bubble every quarter. Answer is usually the same: depends on how tightly the packages are coupled.

If you almost always make cross-package changes, monorepo is right. If not, life is simpler with separate repos.

Four weather conditions in two hours. First snow, then sun, storm, rain.

The weather app gave up too and just shows everything at once.

NetNewsWire set up again, 30 feeds curated. My feed reader is quieter than any timeline.

No algorithm, no recommendations. Only what people wrote themselves and I subscribed to myself.

Small concert, half-full hall, the band still in top form. Sometimes the more intimate version is the better one.

Give away the tickets if you can’t make it — there’s always someone nearby who’d be happy to take them.