Re: finish, I've finished red oak plywood with pre-mixed water-based polyurethane, and while it's okay, it did darken the color significantly. In retrospect, I would have mixed my own.

I found www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWLm... super helpful when I was considering what to use!

Are you a lefty by chance? Because I've got a fountain pen and the whole 'pushing vs pulling' thing wound up making it a challenge to use, and this sure looks like you're holding it in your left hand :D

Can you commit to doing one minute of it _right now_? Then come back :D

This is so relatable. For me, the big struggle is stopping what I'm doing at all; if I can get myself up once or twice (say, to do _just_ 3 minutes of dishes and then coming back for another 27m), that usually works.

Usually.

Good luck!!

Solidarity. Every winter, I am so miserable and a pain in the ass right until the last week of February, when suddenly my patience and joie de vivre re-emerge from hibernation.

Sharing this because I learned it the other week: naming the file docker-compose.yml has been superseded by calling it just compose.yml!

We’re seeing companies ship software nobody in the company understands, with edge cases nobody is aware of, and a host of bugs. LLMs lead to code bases that are harder to understand, buggier, and much less secure.

LLMs for coding isn’t a productivity boon but the birth of a major Y2K-style crisis

I could reclaim a significant portion of my teens and twenties if someone just sent flexbox back in time, lol

💯. Proper componentization—whether that's with WebComponents or React or Vue or even something server-side like ViewComponent—is wildly helpful too, once you have done it enough that you're no longer shooting your own feet.

Plus native CSS is nested now! Absolutely bananas.