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      <title>Links #44</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2021 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://tauri.studio/">Tauri</a> looks like an interesting lightweight alternative to Electron. <a href="https://bencrowder.net/blog/tag/quill/">Quill</a> is the only Electron app I’m still actively using, but it’d still be nice to reduce its footprint a bit.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.exurbe.com/black-death-covid-and-why-we-keep-telling-the-myth-of-a-renaissance-golden-age-and-bad-middle-ages/">Ada Palmer on the Renaissance</a>. Better than the Middle Ages? Doubtful. (Also, there was so much more plague over the centuries than I’d realized. Goodness.)</p>
<p><a href="https://www.robinrendle.com/notes/the-return-of-the-blogroll.html">Robin Rendle on redesigning his personal site</a>. The latter half of the post is what resonated most with me. Sometimes I feel like my site has gotten perhaps a bit too focused on smoothly delivering projects, at the cost of some character. I hope to restore some of that character over the next year.</p>
<p><a href="https://ciechanow.ski/internal-combustion-engine/">Bartosz Ciechanowski explains internal combustion engines</a>. His interactive diagrams are superb as always.</p>
<p><a href="https://donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/the-end-is-near-no-seriously-142683fb085e">Donald G. McNeil, Jr., on the end of Covid</a>. A fairly measured take, I thought. My wife and I are both fully vaccinated now, by the way, but we can’t unquarantine until the kids get their shots (mid-to-late fall is our current loose expectation on that).</p><hr class="feed-extra" style="margin-top: 48pt;" /><p class="feed-extra feed-mail"><a href="mailto:ben.crowder@gmail.com?subject=Re%3A%20Links #44">Reply via email</a></p>]]></description>
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      <title>Links #24</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2020 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Crowder]]></dc:creator>
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<li><a href="https://kottke.org/20/10/heres-what-10-million-stars-look-like">Jason Kottke on what ten million stars look like</a> — this is breathtaking and mind-boggling and beautiful</li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/KiwiEV/status/1316493212605911040">Animation of a medieval bridge being built</a> — mmm, more of this, please</li>
<li><a href="https://adactio.com/journal/15011">Jeremy Keith on dev perception of boring technologies</a> — seems wise</li>
<li><a href="https://char.gd/blog/2019/you-dont-need-that-hipster-web-framework">Owen Williams on SPAs</a> — in a similar vein</li>
<li><a href="https://medium.com/swlh/design-patterns-smalltalk-and-the-lost-art-of-reading-code-1727d93fd7fa">Kyle Gene Brown on Smalltalk and design patterns</a> — I found this interesting (such astute commentary, I know)</li>
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