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πŸ‘‹ I’m Nathan

Here are all the posts on this site, in reverse chronological order. Some are β€œblog posts” I’ve written and some are β€œlink posts” which link to other sites on the web. 🫑

Archive of all the posts on this site

⭐️
means β€œblog post” I’ve written
πŸ”—
means β€œlink post” linking to another site on the web, that I’m not affiliated with, which is cool and you should check out

  2. February 2026

    1. πŸ”— Leica T Leather Holster –

    3. February 2026

    1. πŸ”— CRDT File Sync –

    February 2026

    1. πŸ”— Claude Code Remote Control –

    February 2026

    1. ⭐️ The 4 things that make an "agent" today –

    February 2026

    1. ⭐️ Two interesting AI developments –

    January 2025

    1. ⭐️ You Could Configure Your App with Markdown –

    December 2025

    1. ⭐️ SwiftUI @State Considered Harmful –

    November 2025

    1. ⭐️ I Don't Have a CMS Anymore –

    November 2025

    1. ⭐️ The Library Doesn't Just Have a Catalog… it has a full-time staff –

    November 2025

    1. ⭐️ The Capability Gradient –

    October 2025

    1. πŸ”— TIL about Git Notes –

    October 2025

    1. πŸ”— Git Notes –

    September 2025

    1. πŸ”— TIL about strudel –

    2. ⭐️ Server-side DOM serialization with a weather app example –

  3. March 2025

    1. ⭐️ Removing Hugo –

  4. February 2025

    1. ⭐️ Before the BF, there was the T – my first mirrorless camera πŸ–€ –

  5. December 2024

    1. ⭐️ Reactive DOM nodes + reactive templates for custom elements (web components) –

    2. ⭐️ Building templates for custom elements (web components) –

  6. November 2024

    1. ⭐️ How to build custom elements that work no matter what order things are loaded –

    2. ⭐️ How to manage reactive state using Custom Elements (Web Components) –

    3. ⭐️ Why passkeys are good and you should be advocating for their use –

  7. October 2024

    1. ⭐️ The disharmony between β€œweb components” (custom elements) and react-like β€œframework components” is real –

    2. ⭐️ Reminded of the past, and to not repeat it –

  8. May 2024

    1. ⭐️ How I (Now) Backup My Photos –

  9. April 2024

    1. ⭐️ How I restored and setup my new (to me) $10 iPod shuffle (2nd Gen) with my M1 Mac running Sonoma –

  10. January 2024

    1. πŸ”— Content Authenticity Initiative –

      Links to contentauthenticity.org

    2. πŸ”— 1984 –

      Links to glass.photo

    3. πŸ”— Don’t Be a Sucker (1947) –

      Links to www.youtube.com

  11. December 2023

    1. πŸ”— TIL about Promise.withResolvers() –

      Links to developer.mozilla.org

  12. November 2023

    1. ⭐️ Creating an immediate stereo mute in Eurorack πŸ€” –

    2. πŸ”— Jordan Ward: Tiny Desk Concert –

      Links to www.youtube.com

    3. πŸ”— Cover of Backwater Blues by Sabrina, originally by Lightnin’ Hopkins –

      Links to www.youtube.com

    4. πŸ”— TIL about β€œWeltschmerz” –

      Links to www.psychologytoday.com

  13. October 2023

    1. ⭐️ That photograph on the side of the house on Gartenstraße in Berlin… –

    2. πŸ”— Unbundling AI by Benedict Evans –

      Links to www.ben-evans.com

    3. πŸ”— Possibly Maybe poster by Dotto –

      Links to www.dotto.studio

    4. πŸ”— NASA astronaut back on Earth after record-breaking spaceflight –

      Links to www.axios.com

    5. πŸ”— Fazerdaze – Bigger –

      Links to youtu.be

    6. πŸ”— Why Rappers Stopped Writing –

      Links to youtu.be

    7. πŸ”— electric-sql – Local-first sync for Postgres from the inventors of CRDTs –

      Links to electric-sql.com

    8. πŸ”— Desalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water –

      Links to news.mit.edu

    9. πŸ”— Convenience and scams –

      Links to seths.blog

  14. September 2023

    1. πŸ”— Little Desktop Sculptures by Mohit Bhoite –

      Links to www.bhoite.com

    2. πŸ”— Oslo Transit Diagram –

      Links to t2design.no

    3. πŸ”— Water-Resistant β€œResearch Notes” Notebook –

      Links to www.plain.tw

    4. πŸ”— new AsyncFunction – the async version of new Function –

      Links to picostitch.com

    5. πŸ”— Galileo Galilei’s First Drawings of the Moon After Seeing It Through the Telescope in 1609 –

      Links to www.vintag.es

    6. ⭐️ Learning about Web Components: Part 4 – Researching pre-rendering custom elements and/or SSR –

    7. ⭐️ Learning about Web Components: Part 3 – Define in a static initialization block –

    8. πŸ”— 50 Short Rules for a Better Life (From the Stoics) –

      Links to www.swiss-miss.com

    9. πŸ”— The Feather Atlas at the US Fish and Wildlife Service –

      Links to www.fws.gov

    10. πŸ”— β€œWe’re All Just Temporarily Abled” –

      Links to blog.jim-nielsen.com

    11. πŸ”— Supavisor: Scaling Postgres to 1 Million Connections –

      Links to supabase.com

  15. August 2023

    1. ⭐️ Learning about Web Components: Part 2 – Data access and UI updates –

    2. πŸ”— S.js and some thoughts about reactive state –

      Links to github.com

    3. πŸ”— She Was 300 Yards From the Atomic Bomb Center - and Survived Op-Docs –

      Links to www.youtube.com

    4. πŸ”— Γ“lafur Arnalds live from Hafursey, in Iceland for Cercle –

      Links to www.youtube.com

  16. July 2023

    1. πŸ”— Getting started with View Transitions on multi-page apps by Dave Rupert –

      Links to daverupert.com

    2. πŸ”— Omega Sports Apple Computer Sneakers β€’ Size 10.5 β€’ on Sotheby’s –

      Links to www.sothebys.com

    3. πŸ”— Dive – Olivia Dean –

      Links to www.youtube.com

  17. June 2023

    1. πŸ”— Embrace Complexity; Tighten Your Feedback Loops –

      Links to ferd.ca

    2. πŸ”— Today – Q –

      Links to music.apple.com

    3. πŸ”— Nation of Language - Full Performance (Live on KEXP) –

      Links to www.youtube.com

  18. May 2023

    1. πŸ”— Nopia –

      Links to youtu.be

    2. πŸ”— Jordan Ward – CHERIMOYA –

      Links to youtu.be

    3. πŸ”— Rich Girl – Scary Pockets – featuring Arielle Kasnetz –

      Links to youtu.be

    4. πŸ”— Great Wave Off Kanagawa As Pixel Art by James Weiner –

      Links to www.hypertalking.com

    5. ⭐️ The Man from Laramie –

    6. ⭐️ Learning about Web Components: Part 1 – Getting Started –

    7. πŸ”— Mighty Vibe –

      Links to www.mightyaudio.co.uk

    8. πŸ”— Generate a QR Code in your shell with npx, qrcode-svg, and svgo –

      Links to mastodon.social

  19. April 2023

    1. πŸ”— Testing the Web Share API –

      Links to www.raymondcamden.com

    2. πŸ”— Urth Explorer Filter Kit –

      Links to urth.co

    3. πŸ”— GaeaStar –

      Links to gaeastar.com

    4. πŸ”— The original Wilhelm Scream recording session –

      Links to blog.freesound.org

    5. πŸ”— Moving, a Short Film –

      Links to www.criterionchannel.com

    6. πŸ”— An Interview With Massimo Vitali –

      Links to www.present.xxx

    7. πŸ”— Dreamy Photography Settings –

      Links to www.youtube.com

    8. πŸ”— VIKING Trailer –

      Links to www.youtube.com

    9. ⭐️ Ship the wrong thing to learn what’s right –

    10. πŸ”— Who invented vector clocks? –

      Links to decomposition.al

    11. πŸ”— Gawthorne’s Hut –

      Links to wilgowrah.com.au

    12. πŸ”— You Are Not Okay and Tomorrow Will Come –

      Links to humanparts.medium.com

    13. πŸ”— Art by Nathan Walsh –

      Links to www.nathanwalsh.net

    14. πŸ”— Slow Learning –

      Links to www.swiss-miss.com

  20. March 2023

    1. πŸ”— The Art of the Copyist by The Met –

      Links to www.youtube.com

    2. πŸ”— Polaroid Lab –

      Links to www.polaroid.com

    3. πŸ”— Inside Out. Understanding the art of furniture making –

      Links to www.smb.museum

    4. πŸ”— Men I Trust - Show Me How (garage session) –

      Links to www.youtube.com

    5. πŸ”— Olamide Ogunade’s art –

      Links to olamideogunade.com

    6. πŸ”— Behringer TORO –

      Links to www.youtube.com

    7. πŸ”— Chompi –

      Links to www.youtube.com

    8. πŸ”— Enhancing Directed Content Sharing on the Web (PDF) –

      Links to hci.stanford.edu

    9. πŸ”— Largest known prime number –

      Links to en.wikipedia.org

    10. πŸ”— GPT-4 –

      Links to openai.com

    11. πŸ”— MathGPT –

      Links to mathgpt.streamlit.app

    12. πŸ”— Cargobox by Meelis Lillemets –

      Links to lmets.carbonmade.com

    13. ⭐️ TIL how to allow notifications when screen recording on macOS –

    14. πŸ”— TIL about Beamer for LaTeX –

      Links to en.wikipedia.org

    15. πŸ”— Notes art –

      Links to notes.art

    16. πŸ”— Patch Notes: HΓ©lΓ¨ne Vogelsinger –

      Links to youtu.be

    17. πŸ”— The Full Frod Story! Building a frog house for a Frod. –

      Links to youtu.be

    18. πŸ”— The Shortcut –

      Links to www.bewitched.com

    19. ⭐️ I really love these paintings by John Gannam –

  21. February 2023

    1. πŸ”— Cassette mixing 🀯 –

      Links to www.youtube.com

    2. πŸ”— Dublin Goth New Wave Movement, 1989 –

      Links to www.youtube.com

    3. πŸ”— The Circle (Shortfilm) –

      Links to vimeo.com

    4. πŸ”— TIL about the useUnknownInCatchVariables compiler flag for TypeScript –

      Links to www.typescriptlang.org

    5. ⭐️ Mid-day β˜€οΈ πŸ“Έ –

    6. πŸ”— Living Alone in the Wild Siberian Forest for 20 years in Yakutia –

      Links to www.youtube.com

    7. ⭐️ Everyone thinks everyone is a scammer these days –

  22. January 2023

    1. πŸ”— Love Trip – Takako Mamiya –

      Links to www.youtube.com

    2. ⭐️ Had to update Whitney – the font here –

    3. πŸ”— Ana VidoviΔ‡ playing classical guitar –

      Links to www.youtube.com

    4. πŸ”— Robohands - Green –

      Links to robohands.bandcamp.com

    5. πŸ”— Casiopea - Mint Jams –

      Links to music.apple.com

    6. πŸ”— Hydraulic Press Interpretive Dance –

      Links to www.youtube.com

    7. ⚠️ Modular Office Unit –

      Links to guglielmopoletti.com

      Just so it's clear: I did not make this modular office unit nor did I write a long-form article about it. This is a link to another site on the web. I got a super angry and confused email about this link post, read more about what happened…

    8. πŸ”— TIL about IndieKit –

      Links to getindiekit.com

  23. December 2022

    1. πŸ”— NO THANK YOU – Little Sims –

      Links to youtu.be

  24. August 2022

    1. πŸ”— God’s Country Trailer –

      Links to youtu.be

  25. May 2022

    1. πŸ”— New ❀️ album: Invisible Cities by A Winged Victory For The Sullen –

      Links to music.apple.com

  26. January 2022

    1. ⭐️ Some technologies last –

    2. πŸ”— TIL about explain (analyze, buffers) in postgresql –

      Links to www.pgmustard.com

    3. ⭐️ 3 out of 3 πŸ’‰πŸ’‰πŸ’‰ –

    4. πŸ”— TIL about Gaia –

      Links to en.wikipedia.org

    5. πŸ”— Where Is Webb? –

      Links to webb.nasa.gov

    6. πŸ”— The Dark Forest –

      Links to youtube.com

    7. πŸ”— The James Webb Space Telescope –

      Links to www.youtube.com

  27. May 2021

    1. ⭐️ Collaboration through software: digital paper and card catalogs –

  28. February 2021

    1. ⭐️ TIL about less -S –

  29. January 2021

    1. πŸ”— Wonderful Portraits by Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe –

      Links to www.thisiscolossal.com

  30. December 2020

    1. ⭐️ TIL how to fix a formula conflict when updating brew –

    2. πŸ”— TIL about HTTP Client Hints –

      Links to tools.ietf.org

    3. ⭐️ TIL about ELIXIR_CLI_DRY_RUN for elixir and iex –

  31. November 2020

    1. ⭐️ TIL βŒƒ\ sends SIGQUIT to the foreground process –

    2. πŸ”— TIL one can exit iex with βŒƒ\ –

      Links to hexdocs.pm

  32. October 2020

    1. πŸ”— Beogram 4000c β€’ Recreated by Bang & Olufsen –

      Links to www.bang-olufsen.com

    2. ⭐️ β€œI am excessively slothful, and wonderfully industriousβ€”by fits.” –

  33. September 2020

    1. πŸ”— Dieter Rams Wallpapers –

      Links to www.arun.is

    2. πŸ”— Connect, No Matter the Speed –

      Links to medium.com

  34. August 2020

    1. ⭐️ GitHub Profile README –

  35. July 2020

    1. πŸ”— TIL about hub-sync –

      Links to hub.github.com

  36. June 2020

    1. πŸ”— 29 automata in 6 minutes –

      Links to m.youtube.com

    2. πŸ”— TIL about AbortController –

      Links to developer.mozilla.org

    3. ⭐️ Your metrics might be lying to you – an example from Wunderlist –

  37. May 2020

    1. ⭐️ TIL about vim’s spellcheck –

    2. ⭐️ TIL about :term ++curwin –

    3. ⭐️ TIL about :lcd in vim –

  38. April 2020

    1. πŸ”— This Video Has ___ Views –

      Links to www.youtube.com

  39. February 2020

    1. πŸ”— Retail fonts Β· Klim Type Foundry –

      Links to klim.co.nz

  40. January 2020

    1. πŸ”— A richer canvas –

      Links to markboulton.co.uk

    2. πŸ”— Realistic pillows sculpted from blocks of white marble –

      Links to www.thisiscolossal.com

    3. ⭐️ Going public –

  41. December 2019

    1. πŸ”— Elements of AI –

      Links to course.elementsofai.com

    2. πŸ”— The world's most remote buildings on YouTube πŸ“Ί –

      Links to m.youtube.com

    3. ⭐️ A ryokan –

  42. November 2019

    1. πŸ”— asipai οΌ‹ Hibi Coffee in Kyoto –

      Links to andcoffee.net

    2. ⭐️ Music I love for traveling –

    3. πŸ”— Petrichor by Artist Jean Jullien –

      Links to www.booooooom.com

    4. ⭐️ I've migrated off medium –

  43. June 2019

    1. ⭐️ How to install the macOS Catalina Beta alongside Mojave –

  44. May 2018

    1. ⭐️ Build your MVP today –

    2. ⭐️ I still don’t know how to use a debugger –

  45. April 2018

    1. ⭐️ Puma RS-0 –

    2. ⭐️ Karhu Synchron Classic –

  46. March 2018

    1. ⭐️ One week with the Atom text editor –

  47. September 2017

    1. ⭐️ Twenty-second Postmortem –

  48. July 2017

    1. ⭐️ A quick tip to help remember where you left off –

    2. ⭐️ A newsletter –

    3. ⭐️ Design a Minimal Product Roadmap instead of building an MVP –

  49. June 2017

    1. ⭐️ On queueing –

    2. ⭐️ ElixirConf EU 2017 in Barcelona –

    3. ⭐️ A way to procrastinate –

  50. January 2017

    1. ⭐️ Swift already has a Result type –

  51. November 2016

    1. ⭐️ I’m getting β€œengagement” –

  52. August 2016

    1. ⭐️ CloudKit –

  53. May 2016

    1. ⭐️ Be. –

  54. February 2016

    1. ⭐️ The Network Is Never There for You –

  55. November 2015

    1. ⭐️ Winter and small coffee –

  56. October 2015

    1. ⭐️ Two years in Berlin –

    2. ⭐️ Morning –

  57. March 2015

    1. ⭐️ How we allow any request to be safely repeated at anytime for Wunderlist –

    2. ⭐️ My core values –

  58. January 2015

    1. ⭐️ Make workflows for complicated tasks –

    2. ⭐️ Object Oriented System Architecture –

    3. ⭐️ Always use a CDN –

  59. December 2014

    1. ⭐️ Why make a Mash? –

  60. August 2014

    1. ⭐️ Notes on Contentment –

  61. December 2013

    1. ⭐️ Document semi-wackyβ€Šβ€”β€Šwacky things –

  62. July 2013

    1. ⭐️ Use technologies the rest of your team is motivated to use –

    2. ⭐️ Refactor only when you have some sort of tests –

  63. June 2013

    1. ⭐️ Change as little as possible to fix a problem –

  64. May 2013

    1. ⭐️ Be a good programmer –

    2. ⭐️ The Cost of Education –