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Matthias Ott

Lovely. First task of the day: doing “just” a few small CSS changes in a client project I haven't touched in about 5 years.

Alright…

➜ nvm use

Found '.nvmrc' with version <8.6.0>
N/A: version "v8.6.0" is not yet installed.

I already know where this is going …… 🫠😂

Matthias Ott

➜ npm install

gyp ERR!
gyp ERR!
gyp ERR!
gyp ERR!
gyp ERR!
gyp ERR!
gyp ERR!
gyp ERR!
gyp ERR!
gyp ERR!
gyp ERR!
gyp ERR!

🤘

James' Coffee Blog
James' Coffee Blog

Evening walks

When did I feel the change from the countryside to the town? This question came to mind while I was walking earlier this evening. While walking, I noticed that there was a point at which I felt I was coming back from the countryside into town, but I didn’t know when that mome...

James' Coffee Blog
James' Coffee Blog

Whiteboards and affirmations

I want to write something! This thought has come to mind a lot lately. I have the energy to go and start writing. But before I do, I ask myself: what do I want to write? Inspiration is hard to find, although I recently realised that the voice saying that I want to write somet...

Matthias Ott

Howdy! 🤓 How do you all handle native #CSS Nesting at the moment? Are you using it already? And if so, are you just targeting newer browsers that support it? Or are you using PostCSS, for example?

Asking for a friend who has reduced his build process to the max (nothing but a little esbuild script) and is now hesitating to add PostCSS again… 😉

Matthias Ott

Watched a few highlight videos from the Women’s EURO with my daughter.

“They’re actually playing better than the men.”

🥰

James' Coffee Blog
James' Coffee Blog

Walking

Should I go for a walk? There is always that moment of hesitation. I could stay in, do chores, watch television, and relax. Or I could go outside and walk, maybe even explore. I put on my shoes and headed out without a particular path in mind. I think I was a bit excited to g...

James' Coffee Blog
James' Coffee Blog

The way I think about a song

Zachary and I are exchanging blog post titles with each other (inspired by kami). I chose the title “What making this by hand means to me” for Zachary; he chose the topic “The way I think about a song” for me. Thank you Zachary for the excellent topic choice. Is there a lyri...

James' Coffee Blog
James' Coffee Blog

How do you write HTML?

At Homebrew Website Club yesterday evening, I had an idea: what if there was a piano that, when you pressed a key, it typed a HTML opening tag? While this may be somewhat impractical for authoring HTML documents, on reflection I think this idea gets at a deeper interest: how we author HTML documents. This made me think: how do people write HTML? What tools are used? Tantek demo’ed the text expansion feature in macOS that lets you type letters and expand them into larger sequences. This could be used, for example, to turn

James' Coffee Blog
James' Coffee Blog

The bookmark

This week my edition of the good internet magazine arrived, a fantastic web-focused print publication. I am delighted to hold stories of the web in my hands; this web we weave is real. The edition has been sitting on my coffee table since it arrived, enticing me with stories ...

Matthias Ott

I’m trying to help a client pick a good UI framework they can start their product with, but ultimately grow into their own design system and component library. They have started development with React, which isn’t surprising, but they are also open to using a more framework-agnostic approach in the future.

Any suggestions for a really mature and solid, themeable framework as a starting point? Chakra UI? Ark UI? Radix?

Matthias Ott

“I don’t think there’s anything in principle, that stops machines from being conscious. […] I don’t see why they shouldn’t have emotions. […]
I think they really are thinking. And I think as soon as you make AI agents, they will have concerns.”

A wild interview with Geoffrey Hinton, Nobel Prize winner and “the Godfather of AI”, especially towards the end…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giT0ytynSqg

Matthias Ott

A gate can be really useful for live sound (e.g. when you’re doing a live stream) to cut out unwanted background nois...

A gate can be really useful for live sound (e.g. when you’re doing a live stream) to cut out unwanted background noise or hum with low latency when you're not speaking. Boz Digital’s “Big Beautiful Door 2” even combines this with a four-band EQ for the closed and open sections and is currently on sale ($49 - 50% with BOZ-JULY-4). I just couldn’t resist… 😅
https://www.bozdigitallabs.com/big-beautiful-door-2/

James' Coffee Blog
James' Coffee Blog

Evening

Looking around in thought, I notice one of the trees outside is swaying from the wind. It has been a bit cooler in the latter half of the week — most welcome after the warm weather of late. There are a few raindrops on the window from when the rain was falling earlier, but ar...

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James' Coffee Blog

Keyboards and mice

My wrists have been a bit tense lately so I have decided to try to use my desk more. I had grown comfortable sitting in my armchair using my computer but, if I am to be using my computer several hours per day, perhaps I need a more ergonomic setup. This week I have changed t...

James' Coffee Blog
James' Coffee Blog

Notes from the world, part two

When I am out and about, I like to take notes when something makes me wonder, smile, or otherwise makes me think. Here are a few notes I have taken over the last few weeks. “How did you find out about us?”; “the internet,” I say. The clerk responds, playfully, “sometimes it...