📝 New blog: My Favourite Albums of 2021
📝 New blog: My Favourite Albums of 2021
🚀 Today I released @fec/eleventy-plugin-remark v2.1.1. This release adds an option to disable rehype and gives users more flexibility in which remark/rehype plugins they can use.
I’ve been using Nova as my only code editor/IDE for the past two weeks and it’s great. Such a pleasure to have a native Mac editor again with great support for TypeScript, Prettier and ESLint.
Super interesting investigation how favicons can be used to track users, circumventing VPNs, private browsing and anti-tracking measures.
🔗 The web didn’t change; you did by Remy Sharp
Sure the choices might be overwhelming, but what you learnt in the mid-2000s still works. Browser bend over backwards to maintain backward compatibility.
🔗 MacKenzie Scott’s Remarkable Giveaway Is Transforming the Bezos Fortune by Sophie Alexander and Ben Steverman for Bloomberg.
Someone is feeling bad about how her ex made all his money.
Today the Biathlon World Championship finally started and Austria surprisingly won the silver medal. Having at least one competition nearly every day makes the lockdown a bit more bearable.
🎸 forwards beckon rebound by Adrianne Lenker
European touring made Radiohead the band we are. Brexit must not destroy it by Colin Greenwood for The Guardian.
What!?
The Pandemic Has Erased Entire Categories of Friendship by Amanda Mull
🎸 Julia Stone — We All Have (feat. Matt Berninger)
Nice, new song from Julia Stone and a new album is coming in April.
I find it oddly satisfying when the months starts on a Monday.
Wall decorations, 2021
Nails, yarn, N95 masks, clothes pins, Sharpie
🚀 I have released v1.2.0 of @fec/gatsby-plugin-advanced-feed. This release consistently handles leading slashes and updates dependencies.
📝 New blog: Books I Have Read in 2020
A bit late to the recapping 2020 (aka the shittiest year), but here we go.
Computers don’t necessarily have to be grey or silver rectangles.
Modern Retro Computer Terminals
He will leave no legacy beyond the stench of rank incompetence.
The Last Day of Disco(rd) by Roxanne Gay
I really like the single from Julien Baker Hardline and the amazing video from Joe Baughman. I’m looking forward to the release of her next album on February 26.
I think I never stopped accidentally using the previous year when writing the current date earlier than this year.
Whoa, the 7 day incidence in Vienna is slowly down towards 100 cases per 100.000 residents. The last time it was that low was September 13.
Jodok-Fink-Platz, Vienna
When I want to watch a movie, I always go to Letterboxd first. Nice portrait in the NYT and good to see that these kind of sites and survive and even thrive.
Finally a bit of snow in Vienna
If I don’t turn on the heating in the morning, my apartment stays cold. Turns out.