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Photograph the People You Love. This video by Matt Day is very impactful for me. A few years ago, I lost my sister, and I’m so happy I actually had taken a bunch of photos of her.

Take photos of the people you care about!

I’ve generally been happy with my Apple Watch over the years, but one thing I’ve always missed from the Withings Activité was its passive activity tracking. You never had to remember to start or stop a workout, it would just try to guess.

Is that available for Apple Watch somehow?

The iOS update to Safari where it shows tab groups at the bottom when entering the tab overview is brilliant.

Makes me wish tab groups worked more like that on Mac/desktop Safari.

I may have burned my finger, but bread baking day is still a good day!

Finally, got my Covid-19 booster vaccine! Kinda surprising that some of the things that made me the most happy this autumn is getting stuck with a needle. 😁

Does there exist browser extensions that can warn you if content is generated by LLMs, ”Ai”, etc?

I’m finding it increasingly harder to quickly find out what is BS, since newer BS stuff looks more serious on the surface.

October is too damn early for snow!

Instructions that are strict, but unclear, are nightmare fuel for neurodivergent people.

It’s like ”it’s important to follow this precisely, but I will not explain it precisely”. Literally impossible to follow as it asks you too!

Absolute love this ode to the brilliant, moody, eerie atmosphere of Halo: CE from 2001. Highly recommend you give it a watch if you’ve ever played Halo: CE.

The Norwegian prime Jonas Gahr Støre minister just rejected the idea of setting up an anti-corruption institution to check with politicians' economic interests because… get this: “I’m not sure if that’s within the Norwegian tradition”.

I wish I could rent a camera and lenses in Norway. Some lenses are expensive, niche, and you only want to use them occasionally. So it doesn’t make sense to own them, so renting makes sense.

It’s been so long since I’ve been in an airport that now I feel like I’m i Half-Life 2. The only thing that’s missing is a man saying ‘Welcome… welcome…’

Wish YouTube let me find videos with english subtitles/CC.

I’ve appreciated getting a non-anglo viewpoint on things.

I think Japanese camera and lens are reviews are especially good! They focus on what matters (photo aesthetics + usability), instead of boring sharpness tests. Great vibes too!

Your blog post or news article should include a published date (at the top).

I’m still baffled by how many blogs and news-outlets that don’t feature a published date (or have it hidden by having it at the bottom).

This isn’t hard. Have a published date underneath your title. Always.

Not sure when it happened, but people taking loudspeaker in public is something si notice happening. I’m baffled to why people don’t understand how inconsiderate it is.

Same with people blasting music from their phones and bluetooth speakers in public. What happened?

It’s very unfortunate that technology simply gets too old and often not before long you can’t even repair something.

A part of me wishes some technological progress would stop or at least slow down to make lost-lasting products far more viable.

On the Simple Joys of Shooting Digital Like Film

When you’re shooting digital like film, you’re relying less on all the insane capabilities of the camera and instead using yourself. The more human input comes into the photograph’s creation, the more you can be an active part of its creation.

Svelte 5: Introducing Runes. The upcomig version or Svelte it basing its state and reactivity story around signals (like Solid, Qwik, etc). Like the article says, turns out Knockout was right in the 2010s all along!

From a DX perspective, Svelte 5 runes seems to have the advantages of React hooks, without any of the foot-guns (and using signals for state). Really does seem like the best of many worlds.

Now that Svelte (with Svelte 5) is also going for signals for state management, it really seems like there’s a convergence on them truly being the solution to client side state management and DOM mutation.

I’ve been consuming some analysis on the war in Ukraine, and the way that equipment and soldiers gets talked about is chilling.

Soldiers are… just people. Loosing soldiers means people are dying.

I get that you have to be cold when doing analysis, but fuck. War sucks (fuck Putin for that).

The web industry ought to be ashamed of the fact that the back button is simply not reliable on large parts of the web these days.

Jeremy Keith explaining why multi-page web apps should be the default.

I think that the example app he mentions could be a hybrid SPA/MPA. One that happens to do navigation on the client once it’s loaded (yes, that would be more complex). Pure SPA are very rarely appropriate in my estimation.

The frontend/backend divide is weirdly defined.

The frontend role is defined by code running in the browser, but if HTML is generated on the server, it’s backend.

I develop UI for browsers! Why should my role be defined by if my UI code runs on the server or the browser?

I love Micro.blog, but replying to more than one person is a nightmare. Really wish that worked better.