Essay

John Wick: Chapter 4 is so cool — the Arc de Triomphe station, that Dragon’s Breath shotgun long take, and the stair climbing left me stunned. So cool

The most unbearable moment isn’t “I don’t know”, but “I always thought I knew, and now you tell me I don’t”. Accepting the truth has its price. Every pursuit of truth comes at the cost of admitting you were once an idiot

When technology is no longer worshipped with religious fervor, when its existence goes from front-page headlines to code quietly running in a backend system, that’s when the technology has truly survived. No one thanks the routing protocol when they send an email, no one praises Faraday when they plug something in. The ultimate fate of any great technology is to become unremarkable and indispensable. To web3.

Some articles don’t show up in the homepage directory because they’re archived — just open the menu and check the archive

I’ll probably start flooding the site with updates — I’ve put together a lot of fun stuff these past few days and need to sort it out and write it up

Updated a new friend-link style

I rewrote some of the project’s components; it’s using Solid.JS now

I’m waiting for a downpour

Added a Steam card to the main site; now you can see in real time what the streamer is listening to/playing

People who make their blog all flashy and gaudy, with pop-ups flying everywhere, have no respect for the word 「content」. Anyone who sacrifices readers’ reading experience just to play with electronic building blocks — if even the basic need of letting people finish an article smoothly is compromised because the underlying architecture is garbage, then he doesn’t deserve to be called a blogger.

I went home for the New Year these past few days, so I’ll probably be taking a break from posting for a while

The Edge Serverless foundation is built so well that my services basically all run off of servers now. The five or six US WEST/EAST servers I have lying around suddenly don’t know what to do with themselves—they’re like a few bricks with electricity in them. Just running RSS is way too wasteful.

Robert Kennedy, like his brother, had plenty of imagination too — though the two brothers’ diameters weren’t quite the same: his was .22, and his brother’s was 6.5