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bkeating | 1 year ago | on: Who killed the rave?

It’s more alive than ever, I’d say. Just about any weekend in the Milwaukee/Chicago area has at least a couple parties. Proper underground shit. Not sure what it is, exactly, but it’s been feeling like a time portal back to the 90’s and I love it. Drop Bass Network and Chicago Redline will keep you plenty busy.

bkeating | 3 years ago | on: SvelteKit 1.0

There is so much "let me just see if this works..." tap tapppy tap .... "no... NO WAY... OMG IT WORKED!" with Svelte.

Very little surface area. It embraces your knowledge of plain ole CSS/JS/HTML and empowers you with reactivity and a means of if being able to add motion to your ui.

Newbs and Pros alike can build fast with it. That speed + reactivity allows your software to better keep up with your converstaions that make it all so. Thats insanely powerful.

It's soooo good. Congratulations to Richard Harris and everyone on the Svelte/SvelteKit Team! <3

bkeating | 3 years ago | on: nvALT 2 (2021)

I adore nvALT. so much so i took a stab at making a clone in JavaScript to revel in all the subtle details you take for granted as a user but take a considerable amount of concentration to orchestrate all together as code.

https://github.com/bkeating/nakedNV

bkeating | 4 years ago | on: Entire website in a single HTML file

this is awesome! nice job on the minimalist approach. it looks very clean.

im obsessed with offline-first/offline-only (optional) and have been trying to build all my products with the underlying philosophy of single-file tooling and “infra-less” in-mind; meaning it doesn’t care where it lives and highly portable by default.

here’s a note taking app that is all in a single html file. images are base64’d and data is kept in indexdb. https://github.com/bkeating/nakedNV

bkeating | 4 years ago | on: Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)

Yer darn right they don't change and this is one cool URL because I remember reading this years ago in exactly the same place.

Here is a relevant Long Bet that I think about often (only has one year left to go!) https://longbets.org/601/ "The original URL for this prediction (www.longbets.org/601) will no longer be available in eleven years."

bkeating | 5 years ago | on: You Don't Need a GUI

Alfred[1] (Mac app) w/It’s ‘Power Pack’ add-on gives you a clipboard history manager, text expansion, launcher and more. Very power. You can even navigate your file system, copy, move files... Easily the most crucial piece to my setup and keeping my hands on the keyboard. It’s been a solid app for a very long time.

[1]: https://www.alfredapp.com/

bkeating | 5 years ago | on: TailwindCSS v2.0

Tailwind and utility-first in general is a major win in my book if for one thing only; I don’t have to think about naming my elements at the html level at the start.

Huge speed increase that gives me immediate results. You can absolutely spot and define those names, but you don’t have to think of them up front, allowing you to move forward more abstractly. Readability and maintainability seem like an inefficient nightmare but so far I have felt no pain or burden.

Hats off to the Tailwind team. This is the way.

bkeating | 8 years ago | on: The 10,000 Year Clock

Imagine that the future is now and they’re looking back on our time. What a valuable and warming touch to the whole thing.

It makes sense, too. Out of all the things Long Now has done, an inspiring space for great minds to meet definitely seems fitting. A priority, even.

bkeating | 12 years ago | on: Django vs. Flask for a long-term project

This last past year, at DjangoCon US • Chicago, I had the pleasure of sitting at the same table as Jacob Kaplan-Moss for the Speakers dinner prior to the conference. Very cool experience. My first.

I brought up Flask and asked him what he thought of it. I had recently used it for a project for the first time and likely only did so because I was SUPPOSE TO BE FOCUSING on Django and preparing a talk about it. So naturally, I procrasinated and did everything but. It's been on my radar for awhile. I was attracted to it by it's documentation. Turns out, I really enjoyed it. It felt familiar because I've used Django for so long. I brought this up at the dinner table.

Jacob said something that took me by surprise. I can't quote him exactly--the wine and drinks were too good that evening, but it was something to the effect of "Flask is what Django should have been". Another fellow from our table chimed in and added "If only Django had existed before we created Django!" What he ment was, without Django, Flask wouldn't of had such a clear and smooth start. Django taught us a lot.

What I took from this was, both have their place and we have a lot to be thankful for, especially coming from the Django community. In regards to longevity, I think community is a major factor but these two technolgoies are both under Python, and I think the Python community at-large is what matters here. Hearing what Jacob had to say on Flask was sobering. There is no end-all-be-all, and both of these technolgoies have more in common than not.

bkeating | 12 years ago | on: Stop "Teaching Kids to Code"

Coming from a teenager, this article makes sense and I enjoyed the point of view, but this is horrible advice, D. Marshall Lemcoe Jr. You should consider letting this one hit the floor.
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