June 9, 2025

Preventative Care and the Tiniest Violins

Hey friends,

Summer's ALMOST here. It's so close I can smell it — and it smells like sunscreen. 🌞🧴

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Thinking Too Hard 🤔

Nothing special this week, except for this: take care of yourself.

After coming off a two-week combination of cold and muscle injury, I'm reminded that a little preventative care goes a long way in keeping you on your feet. (Don't worry, I'm doing much better now!)

I'm grateful for a relatively healthy body but I am reminded how much we take for granted — until we can't. Like being able to bend over or simply driving.

Like Cindi Li said, "We're all just temporarily abled."

So take care of what you have while you have it!

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Interesting Web Bits 🍜

Web Stuff

• I love the energy and goal of the Good Internet magazine.
• Quarkdown is an effort to bring Latex-like layout and functions to Markdown. It seems more geared toward academic papers, but still neat to see all the same.
• TC39 advanced nine JavaScript proposals last week.
• Danilo Alonso thinks AI replacing developers is bunk. Here's a quote from the article: "Code is not an asset—it’s a liability... If AI makes writing code faster and cheaper, it’s really making it easier to create liability."
• Jim Nielsen does a good job unpacking the phrase, "It's just JavaScript...".

Other Stuff

• Anne Lamot wrote in her book, Bird by Bird, that people kind of want to write, but they REALLY want to be published — but that's not a productive mindset. Jeet Mehta reminds us to write for yourself first.
• You're a scientist with access to nanolithography. What do you do? Creating the world's smallest violin is an extremely valid answer.
• Speaking of violins, these photos taken from inside instruments are spectacular!