Excursions

Writing publicly, with the voice of your readers chirping at the back of your mind, is ineffective. You write for interaction – that’s futile. Most social media posts belong to this category. You are reined back by the voice — you write for someone else. The response you expect from them, your readers, provides you the lead. You write not what you like, you write what you think your reader likes.

Sure, this approach can churn some of the most well-received works of creation. It’s the satisfaction within the writer, the creator, that gets crushed in the process.

I recently finished watching The Lincoln Lawyer on Netflix. It’s an engaging, bingeworthy series. Nothing’s special about it, but if all one wants is to binge a show over the weekend, this is one option. The things keep moving. No performance painful, no side-story unbearable.

[D]esigning a language to be minimalistic, to have fewer concepts, and to choose primitives that combine well together, is a good way to make the language easier to learn. If the programming language has fewer concepts, there’s less to learn, and your level of proficiency will increase faster.

Source: Minimalism in Programming Language Design →

I recently got to know (h/t Gabriel) that “On This Day” feature doesn’t work with the Paper theme. I fixed the issue – the micro memories should load properly now. I have also fixed a few minor styling issues. The upgrade should be available in the plugins directory now.

I want you to know that most of your life will happen in the gray spaces between bliss and heartbreak, between having everything lock into place and having it all fall apart. That’s where the grace is.

Source: Laura Dern writes to her teenage daughter →

I have been traveling for the past week – rejuvenating myself amidst the nature. Relaxing on the beach. Had some wonderful rides, surrounded by dense jungles. Most of all, untouched by all the hustle bustle of the modern life. Wonder. Amazement. Serenity.

Who’s on first?→

Abbott and Costello perform the classic “Who’s on first?” baseball sketch in their 1945 film “The Naughty Nineties” first performed as part of their stage act.

If you make your own website, consider making short URLs. This is not about a URL shortener. This is about making your original URLs short in the first place.

Source: Short URLs: why & how | Derek Sivers →

I always liked simpler URLs, wish Micro.blog provided more options.

Flowers and thorns must have a special relationship - often the former attempts to veil the spikes. mbmay

Experimental picture with nature’s colors at night. I’m not too proud. But an experiment nonetheless. #mbmay