Weeknotes 2024-02-05
A priest, a pastor, and a rabbit entered a clinic to donate blood.
The nurse asked the rabbit: "What's your blood type?"
"I'm probably a Type 0", said the rabbit. --via George Takei
Normal work week. Too sick to do any programming related stuff besides work.
Articles
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First good critical article about htmx I have seen. Yes, you have to be careful with adding hx attributes to div elements (breaking a11y etc), but I disagree with web components being the solution, because how to do hx-sync with web components?
Software
Podcasts
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Bruno Preisendörfer: Sokrates Das philosophische Radio
Didn't know about this "not" vs "nothing" thing, nice!
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#408 – Tal Wilkenfeld: Music, Guitar, Bass, Jeff Beck, Prince, and Leonard Cohen Lex Fridman Podcast
Brr, I'm not interested in Lex human side at all, but Tal is cool.
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#369: The Readability Episode Python Bytes
Dunno why I listen to that show less often, lately
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Folge #80 Ist die NATO-Osterweiterung Schuld an Russlands Krieg gegen die Ukraine? Sicherheitshalber
I am still short of good resources on this topic, but this episode helped my understanding quite a bit.
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Great! Wow about this access stuff...
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Mastodon with Eugen Rochko Software Engineering Daily
Really good episode
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The website of the Bildungstrinken
podcast is down, but if you are only interested in the audio content, you can still find it here. We did a kind of nostalgic drinking session while trying to listen to the first episode.
Books
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Beej's Guide to Networking Concepts
With source code in Python!
I take my hat off to Jörg Meyer. If your cocktail recipes are printed on ice cubes packaging, you've probably made it.