Hey friends,

If April showers bring May flowers, what do May flowers bring?

June bugs.

(Literally hundreds of them. Blasted things.)

Thinking Too Hard 🤔

Why is it that forming GOOD habits is so difficult? (Yes, I'm talking about health and fitness...)

There's a friction point when trying to develop a new habit: it's not quite 'something you just do,' and more like 'this is probably a good idea, but I don't quite know how to do it'. I find it very easy to get discouraged at this stage, but I really like James Clear's 1% rule: small improvements lead to big changes over time. I don't have to have it figured out, I just need to do a little better than last time!

Interesting Web Bits 🍜

Web Stuff

• While I’m still on the fence whether web components are worth the hassle, this progressive web component approach seems less painful.
• Nolan asserts that we don't have to use AI to spew slop, that there is another way.

Other Stuff

• Brain Baking talks about the diminishing role of the 'family computer'.
• Lara gives us a response to, "Why can't they just X".
• Ashton gives a breakdown on the difference between treesitters and LSPs, two of my favorite editor technologies!
• Aleksandr shows us how to embed code samples with a web component.
• A fascinating look at why Japanese companies are different and do so many different things.
• Neil argues that burnouts are in part from "... optimizing for less suffering instead of more meaning.' I'm not sure if I'm on board with everything else Neil is saying, but I think he has a point there. We need purpose, and jobs aren't always great for that.

👽 Weird, 📺 Watch, and 🎮 Play

• 👽 Listen to a weather controlled radio station: Weather for the Blind
• 👽 A chatbot that listens 💀
• 📺 Beetle Sumo 🪲🤼
• 📺 I've never seen spintop, much less what people can do with them! 😲