Also just throwing this out there: I run a Discord called The Spicy Web that really is about learning and building stuff with the fundamentals, even for old-timers like myself (but all the more for newbies! So much advice out there is about pulling in tons of opinionated tools and dependencies, even when you don't need them…). At any point if you want to bounce ideas or questions off folks in real-time, check it out!
I disagree. The fundamentals of the web specs are more important than ever, and many projects don't even need a frontend framework.
This episode knocked it out of the park. In a season that's been a wee bit hit and miss IMHO (compared to S1), seeing such depth and pathos in a story which could have been handled in a heavy-handed way otherwise, well it's very satisfying.
My two favorite "vehicles" in all of fandom are the Enterprise-D and the BTTF DeLorean. And what do you know, Andrew Probert had a significant hand in designing both, as well as the first updated Enterprise in Star Trek: TMP. Here's a cool interview with Andrew from back in 2001.
I don't think I've ever screamed so loud at my TV before. I was loosing my shit at this moment. I was stunned. What a high. Possibly one of the best memories of fandom I have in my life now.
Hearing Picard simply snarl Q! in that grumpy Patrick Stewart manner is the greatest.
I love the character of Quark, but let's be honest. Guinan is the better bartender, if you're just a regular Starfleet officer looking to down a pint of syntheholic ale.
I got the best deal of all: canceling my Prime membership. I'm saving tons of money! 🤡
(but seriously, screw Amazon and their monopolistic, anti-labor practices)
Wow, that story really is bonkers. Gotta admire the chutzpah I guess.
Weird that they'd bother to take the time to use an accent for "Café" but then misspell Coffee! 😅
This may be a weird answer, but I played Celtic music with the family band as a teenager and our favorite place to play was Santa Rosa Brewing Company in Santa Rosa, CA. Great vibe, good food—I of course was too young to partake of the brew 😉—but it was a lot of fun and we had a crowd of regulars who'd come to see us perform every time. When they eventually closed down, it felt like the end of an era…
Every time I hear about all the little critters along for the ride in my body, it makes my skin crawl. And apparently everyone on my skin is already doing that. 😅
Yeah, if something like a combination of a webring/blogroll with actually good UX (I don't like the "which random website will I get plopped down on next?" aspect) could emerge, that would be cool.
I would generally agree with you. Bring blogging back, baby! But the question of discovery is still open. I'm optimistic about the threadiverse over the long haul in this regard, but there's a lot of work we'll need to do to get there. Also blogging feels daunting to the less technically-inclined still. I'm not sure the traditional blog platforms out there (Wordpress.com, etc.) are quite up to the task…they typically end up catering to more of the power-user business site use cases.
Yeah, it's kinda crazy but I'm already running the dev beta on my iPad Pro and my Mac mini (main machine), and other than occasional graphics glitches or whatnot, I've been amazed at the stability and some actual bug fixes from previous versions. If it's looking this good already at the beginning of the summer, I'm feeling pumped about the fall!
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