2023, Week 11 in Review

"You're only given one little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it."
— Robin Williams

This week has absolutely flown past, looking back it feels as though I went to bed on Monday night and woke up part way into Friday!

I didn't manage to meet any of my publishing goals. However, I did do a lot of maintenance on this digital garden; revamping its footer, adding a new concept of lists and refactoring layouts.

I begin an interesting project next week involving Nuxt3 and porting across some of our existing workflows to it as way of upgrading our stack to something more modern. A lot of our legacy code is Vue2, I am hopeful that it will not be too difficult to copy and refactor to get working.

Joke of the week ¶

Struggling to think of what to buy someone for Christmas?
Get theme a fridge and watch their face light up when they open it.

Notable Articles Read ¶

• Ethan Zuckerman: Elon Musk’s Compelling Case for Worst Human of 2023
• Dan Palmer: Activity Pub vs Web Frameworks
• Aaron Bell: Secret colours of the Commodore 64
• Erlend Sogge Heggen: Weird web pages
• Jason Scott: The Grind a Day
• Tara Smith: Can a fungus really take over our brains?
• Alex Ellis: Docker is deleting Open Source organisations - what you need to know

Notable Videos Watched ¶

• HAINBACH: The Surprising Musicality of a Telephone Line Simulator
• Tieran Freedman: Cornwall: A Celtic Nation Trapped in England | Cornish Language, Culture & Identity
• FreeDOS: How I write programs on FreeDOS

Cool things from around the internet ¶

• VIC-20 Listings: VIC-20 Listings an archive of type-in games, utilities and other programs for the Commodore VIC-20 home computer
• Aaron Giles: DREAMM: a bespoke emulator for LucasArts games
• Maple: webgbcam: a simple Game Boy Camera-style filter made in HTML5 and JavaScript
• Eevee: Roguelike Simulator