Links Dump - March 9th 2024
Another interesting week on the Cybernetic WEB™ of our futuristic age!
(Writing this for posterity, so they’ll think we were living the Sci-fi dream. Alas.).
Music 🎵
- Bleachers - Modern Girl
- Julian Lage - Speak To Me
- A Kind of Timeless Jazz Masterpiece // A nice piece about Miles Davis’ “Kind of Blue”.
- Nadine Shah - Topless Mother
- Ex-Easter Island Head – Norther
- Olof Dreijer - Coral
- Milkweed - Folklore 1979
Long Reads 📰
- Secularization Comes for the Religion of Technology: Or, how to make sense of techno-optimist manifestos, the Open Ai/Altman affair, EA/e-acc movements, and the general sense of cultural stagnation // Brilliant essay about technology as religion
- The growing popularity of degrowth // Dear capitalism, go small or go home.
- Why we must seize leisurely interludes from work’s confines // I could ask an AI assistant to give me a snappy oneliner to describe this article, the truth is I still have to read it myself, but it looks interesting.
IndieWeb 🏴☠️
- IndieWeb Carnival: Roundup // So many interesting write ups and blogs and people in this single post that it’s not even fair! For future further digging.
Tech ⚙️
- Special report: how design agencies are actually using AI in 2024 // I still have to read this. For the lols.
Tools 🛠️
This week I’ve been on a bit of a binge of fonts specifically designed for programming and terminal emulators. In the end I’ll stick to my dear JetBrainsMono, but these look nice too.
- Intel® One Mono
- MonoLisa - font follows function
- Hermit
- Coding Font by Typogram – Find Your True Love of Coding Fonts // Interesting tool to pin down your favourite coding font.
Web Development 🌐
- The Art of PostgreSQL // For future reference, I’m gonna need this soon, I suspect.
- Interesting ideas in Observable Framework // Another JS framework?? Another JS framework.
Software 💻
- ibhagwan/fzf-lua: Improved fzf.vim written in lua // I completely replaced Telescope with Fzf-lua in my Neovim config. So much snappier, and so many features and possibilities of customisation. I love it.