jimniels

I read C. Thi Nguyen’s book “The Score” a few months ago and it’s phenomenal. Incredibly applicable to our modern age of metrics and measurements and organizations at scale.

(And great quote, thanks for sharing!)

good for them. essential infrastructure. pillars of a civil society.

there’s a post-apocalyptic novel waiting to be written where civilization collapses and the cable hoarders sit on the thrones

> if you have graduated from "big box of cables" to "cabinets full of cables"

I have much yet to learn, cable master :)

waiting for the next piece of this story, where your toddler turns 13 and gets their first mp3 player, which doesn't ship with a charger and guess who still has 18 inches of cable left?

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I didn’t get into my organizational techniques, but agree with your take! Ziploc bags + a sharpie is exactly how I do it.

https://imgur.com/JMUIcDY

Ah this is a good one! I should maybe start considering this as a default...

My first thought on finding this: needs an rss feed! TY

Owner of said personal site here: that's nice of you to say. Thank yoU!

Author here: I didn’t realize that misspelling until now. But I like it. Gonna leave it. Thanks for pointing it out ha!

author here, thx for pointing these out! I was simultaneously working on some CSS for my blog on localhost and when I looked up some references to older articles to put in my post, I looked them up in the version of my site that was running locally and forgot to change the links lol. Whoops. Fixed now — thanks again!

author here: this is a great point, thx for pointing it out! also love this summation

> We are effectively writing in a fictitious language and pass it through a series of transformations until we finally get syntactically valid JavaScript

that article sounds interesting...

Cool! Made me want to try building it in Quadratic because you can tie the live data source into the spreadsheet.

I didn’t use the more comprehensive dataset in big query [1] and I didn't use the firebase API [2] either because it's so much data to go through. Instead I used the Algolia search API [3] because it was easy ha.

The resulting charts [4] are, if nothing else, interesting to look at and on first glance similar to what I see in the og google sheet.

Disclosure: I work on Quadratic and this was a good exercise in using the product (and finding bugs). The spreadsheet is available to look at publicly [5]

[1] https://console.cloud.google.com/bigquery?p=bigquery-public-...

[2] https://github.com/HackerNews/API?tab=readme-ov-file

[3] https://hn.algolia.com/api

[4] https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a97ba432-d6dd-4d1...

[5] https://app.quadratichq.com/file/033d2fa7-b205-4c27-9fce-247...

Love this. Maybe everything we do and enjoy doesn’t have to also become a skill and identity.

Post author here. There are so many great additional examples of intriguing URL patterns in the comments here. TY everyone for sharing ones you remember!

Author here, sorry about that. I’ve since updated the link href

Oooh you’re right. I didn’t notice that. I wonder…

I always liked this library. Wrote a tutorial around the concept of it on websesign tuts a few years back, though I'm not sure how dated it is in relation to the API now (http://webdesign.tutsplus.com/tutorials/filler-content-tools...). Anyway, it deals with one way the library could be used in the browser, in combination with other filler content services, to aid "designing" in the browser.