Hey friends,

They say snow is coming.

But those snowmen don't carrot all.

Things I Wrote ✍️

I've talked a little bit about RSS in the past, but recently I've switched over to self-hosting FreshRSS locally. It lets me focus less on the app and the limits of plans and more on the voices I want to hear.

If you want to give self-hosting FreshRSS a try, follow along with my local self-hosting guide.

Interesting Web Bits 🍜

Web Stuff

• Robin Rendle wonders, is AI a manic technology?
• Addy Osmani shows us how to write good specs for AI.
• So you want to lower a selector specificity, eh?.
• A look back at DarkSky, a finely crafted weather app that Apple has now sunset.

Other Stuff

• Exactly what it says: Shipmap 🚢
• Maptoposter also does exactly what it says! 🗺️
• I am intrigued by the practice of Morning Pages but wildly uncertain what would come out of my pre-coffee brain. ☕😱

Weird, Watch, and Play

• 👽 I love a weird website, and Tony Revell's is great!
• 📺 What happens when you drop a neodymium magnet through a thick copper pipe? Magnetic dampening 😎
• 📺 Watch Viviana Alávez preserve the craft of beeswax candle-making in Teotitlan del Valle, Mexico.