Hey friends,

What's the best halloween dessert?

I scream and booberry pie 😱🥧

(I know, I know, we're scraping the bottom of the Halloween barrel here...)

Thinking Too Hard 🤔

We're continuing our exploration of the idea that reading, writing, and self-reflection keep our thinking and opinions sharp. Last week we talked about self-reflection, and how we usually make it too hard for ourselves.

There's also difference between reflection and rumination. Rumination (like a cow chewing its cud) is repetitive thinking that doesn't lead to new insight or action. There's a danger of trapping ourselves in brain loops.

Thought by ITSELF is not inherently valuable. If our thinking doesn't PRODUCE anything, we might be stuck in a rut or a tangle. Reflection, then, can be a way to break out of this. If you see yourself stuck in a rumination loop, maybe ask yourself:

• What am I hoping to figure out with this?
• What do I know for certain, and what am I assuming?
• What part of this is in my control, and what is outside of it?
• Is there something keeping me from acting on this? (Fear of failure, discomfort, embarrassment, etc.?)
• What is the next smallest thing I can do on this?

Believe me, I wind up ruminating all the time, but I think the trick is recognizing it for the loop it is and finding ways to move towards action.

Interesting Web Bits 🍜

Web Stuff

• Oh no, there's now not only a Go migration for TypeScript 7, but now there's a Rust fork, a Bun fork, a TypeScript scriptc fork (by Vercel), and another Rust fork (by VoidZero, not to be left out).
• While I'm glad to see new CSS approaches, a 'classless-first' CSS framework feels like the antithesis of everything we worked for with Object-Oriented CSS back in the day...
• Josh Comeau looks at some upcoming CSS features.

Other Stuff

• Bad data in, bad data out. 😬
• Now THESE are the kind of instructions I need!
• I'm a sucker for new fonts; Nordward Mono is a sharp and stylistic monospace font. I can't tell if it looks old or futuristic... maybe neo-retro?
• Huh, I guess I've never really thought of the need for a dead man's switch. However, I think I'd forget to check in and accidentally send erroneous messages that I'd passed away... 😅💀

👽 Weird, 📺 Watch, and 🎮 Play

• 👽 In case you wanted to know how all the Zelda games fit into the timeline, here you go.
• 📺 Spend 5 minutes in the jungle of Ecuador.
• 📺 What the Aurora Borealis looks like from space! 🧑‍🚀
• 📺 This is a pretty neat way to intro animation principles.
• 📺 Watch this absolutely massive pumpkin grow in a timelapse. 🎃
• 🎮 Choo Choo! Can you connect the stations?
• 🎮 Play Katamari Damacy on webpages in Weball