A living collection of notes, ideas, and reflections from Doug Belshaw.
The blog that I referenced in my last note uses the 'Terminus' theme for Zola, a "fast static site generator in a single binary with everything built-in."
I like the aesthetic, and it turns out that it was influenced by other themes which are also worth exploring:
…While I'm not sure that 'dopamine fracking' is the term for this, it's nevertheless a decent analysis of what's going on. (One of the terms they consider and reject is 'sloptimisation' - a term I also used in a post exactly a month ago.)
…This is very cool. It makes me sad that I can't run much any more. The website, only currently available in Polish, but easily translatable via browser tools, is here: runart.pl
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This is an interesting view:
A lot of companies make money because their customers can’t be bothered to monitor them more closely, or to insource something. Customers let the company make some money in exchange for doing a decent-enough job and making the problem go away.
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I remember watching Inside by Bo Burnham during the pandemic and being very impressed by his creativity. This is right up there with that, a genius mix of comedy, storytelling, revelation, and music.
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I didn't know La Tour Triangle was being built and now, apparently, it's "topped out" (which I assume means reached maximum height). Here it is on Google Maps.
Rising 180 meters (590 feet) in the city’s 15th arrondissement near Porte de Versailles, the glass-clad structure now stands as one of the tallest buildings within Paris proper, surpassed only by the Eiffel Tower and Tour Montparnasse.
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My mate Adam Procter has had some of his work displayed as part of a Changing the Game: Ten Years of Play at WSA exhibition at Winchester School of Art - part of the University of Southampton.
They're also showing some of his games:
…The above is a simple mindmap on the whiteboard in my home office, but it's been over 15 years since I created this large mindmap to help me with my doctoral thesis. I used XMind to create it, and I'm not entirely sure why I didn't for my zine on Productive Friction.
…This is a good episode of Philosophy Bites with Rebecca Newberger Goldstein. Summary via my LRF as I'm on the go:
Goldstein defines mattering as being deserving of attention, and her key move is that the attention we're most anxious to deserve is our own. That makes us normative, value-seeking creatures by nature, distinct from other animals. She dates the arrival of these existential questions to Jaspers' Axial Age (roughly 800–200 BCE), framing them as a luxury that depends on baseline survival being met.
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