This article is already old news for me and largely irrelevant as i don’t use much in the way of rando js modules, random packages, etc. However the subject is interesting due to the conversations that has spawned:

• It’s not fun anymore
• Open Source Is Not About You
• If it’s not fun anymore, you get nothing from maintaining a popular package
• I don’t know what to say - a more commented reddit discussion Etc.

As always, the hell is in the comments from these posts but mostly this boils down to a couple of things for me:

got nostalgic for the commodore 64 and wrote a javascript/html variation of 10 Print.

it can be found on my github here

while the original code is this:

10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 1

the javascript version is also one line but demanded some css, etc to make it look decent in the browser. also, microsoft edge kills it completely. both of these things bother me but i’m not sure why. maybe the simplicity of the console versus the formatting hell that is the window? longing for a simpler age? getting crushed by nostalgia for something that never truly existed?

a fortune cookie that i opened on my birthday dinner said to tie up loose ends. if that’s not an omen, i’m not sure what is. regardless, i’ve been doing just that.

in the meantime, my car decided to die so there’s the unwelcome repair bill and the lack of vehicle for the past couple days, which, in reality, is a welcome change. my average use of the car is to go to work or to a supermarket (which i’ve documented here on behance)

of course this post never got written. smh.

I need a better chair for my studio. Something ridiculous but on wheels and able to be sat in while wearing multiple blankets.