👋 I’m Nathan

Here are all the posts on this site, in reverse chronological order. Some are “blog posts” I’ve written and some are “link posts” which link to other sites on the web. 🫡

Archive of all the posts on this site

⭐️
means “blog post” I’ve written
🔗
means “link post” linking to another site on the web, that I’m not affiliated with, which is cool and you should check out

  2. February 2026

    1. ⭐️ Two interesting AI developments –

    3. January 2025

    1. ⭐️ You Could Configure Your App with Markdown –

    December 2025

    1. ⭐️ SwiftUI @State Considered Harmful –

    November 2025

    1. ⭐️ I Don't Have a CMS Anymore –

    November 2025

    1. ⭐️ The Library Doesn't Just Have a Catalog… it has a full-time staff –

    November 2025

    1. ⭐️ The Capability Gradient –

    October 2025

    1. 🔗 TIL about Git Notes –

    October 2025

    1. 🔗 Git Notes –

    September 2025

    1. 🔗 TIL about strudel –

    2. ⭐️ Server-side DOM serialization with a weather app example –

  3. March 2025

    1. ⭐️ Removing Hugo –

  4. February 2025

    1. ⭐️ Before the BF, there was the T – my first mirrorless camera 🖤 –

  5. December 2024

    1. ⭐️ Reactive DOM nodes + reactive templates for custom elements (web components) –

    2. ⭐️ Building templates for custom elements (web components) –

  6. November 2024

    1. ⭐️ How to build custom elements that work no matter what order things are loaded –

    2. ⭐️ How to manage reactive state using Custom Elements (Web Components) –

    3. ⭐️ Why passkeys are good and you should be advocating for their use –

  7. October 2024

    1. ⭐️ The disharmony between “web components” (custom elements) and react-like “framework components” is real –

    2. ⭐️ Reminded of the past, and to not repeat it –

  8. May 2024

    1. ⭐️ How I (Now) Backup My Photos –

  9. April 2024

    1. ⭐️ How I restored and setup my new (to me) $10 iPod shuffle (2nd Gen) with my M1 Mac running Sonoma –

  10. January 2024

    1. 🔗 Content Authenticity Initiative –

      Links to contentauthenticity.org

    2. 🔗 1984 –

      Links to glass.photo

    3. 🔗 Don’t Be a Sucker (1947) –

      Links to www.youtube.com

  11. December 2023

    1. 🔗 TIL about Promise.withResolvers() –

      Links to developer.mozilla.org

  12. November 2023

    1. ⭐️ Creating an immediate stereo mute in Eurorack 🤔 –

    2. 🔗 Jordan Ward: Tiny Desk Concert –

      Links to www.youtube.com

    3. 🔗 Cover of Backwater Blues by Sabrina, originally by Lightnin’ Hopkins –

      Links to www.youtube.com

    4. 🔗 TIL about “Weltschmerz” –

      Links to www.psychologytoday.com

  13. October 2023

    1. ⭐️ That photograph on the side of the house on Gartenstraße in Berlin… –

    2. 🔗 Unbundling AI by Benedict Evans –

      Links to www.ben-evans.com

    3. 🔗 Possibly Maybe poster by Dotto –

      Links to www.dotto.studio

    4. 🔗 NASA astronaut back on Earth after record-breaking spaceflight –

      Links to www.axios.com

    5. 🔗 Fazerdaze – Bigger –

      Links to youtu.be

    6. 🔗 Why Rappers Stopped Writing –

      Links to youtu.be

    7. 🔗 electric-sql – Local-first sync for Postgres from the inventors of CRDTs –

      Links to electric-sql.com

    8. 🔗 Desalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water –

      Links to news.mit.edu

    9. 🔗 Convenience and scams –

      Links to seths.blog

  14. September 2023

    1. 🔗 Little Desktop Sculptures by Mohit Bhoite –

      Links to www.bhoite.com

    2. 🔗 Oslo Transit Diagram –

      Links to t2design.no

    3. 🔗 Water-Resistant “Research Notes” Notebook –

      Links to www.plain.tw

    4. 🔗 new AsyncFunction – the async version of new Function –

      Links to picostitch.com

    5. 🔗 Galileo Galilei’s First Drawings of the Moon After Seeing It Through the Telescope in 1609 –

      Links to www.vintag.es

    6. ⭐️ Learning about Web Components: Part 4 – Researching pre-rendering custom elements and/or SSR –

    7. ⭐️ Learning about Web Components: Part 3 – Define in a static initialization block –

    8. 🔗 50 Short Rules for a Better Life (From the Stoics) –

      Links to www.swiss-miss.com

    9. 🔗 The Feather Atlas at the US Fish and Wildlife Service –

      Links to www.fws.gov

    10. 🔗 “We’re All Just Temporarily Abled” –

      Links to blog.jim-nielsen.com

    11. 🔗 Supavisor: Scaling Postgres to 1 Million Connections –

      Links to supabase.com

  15. August 2023

    1. ⭐️ Learning about Web Components: Part 2 – Data access and UI updates –

    2. 🔗 S.js and some thoughts about reactive state –

      Links to github.com

    3. 🔗 She Was 300 Yards From the Atomic Bomb Center - and Survived Op-Docs –

      Links to www.youtube.com

    4. 🔗 Ólafur Arnalds live from Hafursey, in Iceland for Cercle –

      Links to www.youtube.com

  16. July 2023

    1. 🔗 Getting started with View Transitions on multi-page apps by Dave Rupert –

      Links to daverupert.com

    2. 🔗 Omega Sports Apple Computer Sneakers • Size 10.5 • on Sotheby’s –

      Links to www.sothebys.com

    3. 🔗 Dive – Olivia Dean –

      Links to www.youtube.com

  17. June 2023

    1. 🔗 Embrace Complexity; Tighten Your Feedback Loops –

      Links to ferd.ca

    2. 🔗 Today – Q –

      Links to music.apple.com

    3. 🔗 Nation of Language - Full Performance (Live on KEXP) –

      Links to www.youtube.com

  18. May 2023

    1. 🔗 Nopia –

      Links to youtu.be

    2. 🔗 Jordan Ward – CHERIMOYA –

      Links to youtu.be

    3. 🔗 Rich Girl – Scary Pockets – featuring Arielle Kasnetz –

      Links to youtu.be

    4. 🔗 Great Wave Off Kanagawa As Pixel Art by James Weiner –

      Links to www.hypertalking.com

    5. ⭐️ The Man from Laramie –

    6. ⭐️ Learning about Web Components: Part 1 – Getting Started –

    7. 🔗 Mighty Vibe –

      Links to www.mightyaudio.co.uk

    8. 🔗 Generate a QR Code in your shell with npx, qrcode-svg, and svgo –

      Links to mastodon.social

  19. April 2023

    1. 🔗 Testing the Web Share API –

      Links to www.raymondcamden.com

    2. 🔗 Urth Explorer Filter Kit –

      Links to urth.co

    3. 🔗 GaeaStar –

      Links to gaeastar.com

    4. 🔗 The original Wilhelm Scream recording session –

      Links to blog.freesound.org

    5. 🔗 Moving, a Short Film –

      Links to www.criterionchannel.com

    6. 🔗 An Interview With Massimo Vitali –

      Links to www.present.xxx

    7. 🔗 Dreamy Photography Settings –

      Links to www.youtube.com

    8. 🔗 VIKING Trailer –

      Links to www.youtube.com

    9. ⭐️ Ship the wrong thing to learn what’s right –

    10. 🔗 Who invented vector clocks? –

      Links to decomposition.al

    11. 🔗 Gawthorne’s Hut –

      Links to wilgowrah.com.au

    12. 🔗 You Are Not Okay and Tomorrow Will Come –

      Links to humanparts.medium.com

    13. 🔗 Art by Nathan Walsh –

      Links to www.nathanwalsh.net

    14. 🔗 Slow Learning –

      Links to www.swiss-miss.com

  20. March 2023

    1. 🔗 The Art of the Copyist by The Met –

      Links to www.youtube.com

    2. 🔗 Polaroid Lab –

      Links to www.polaroid.com

    3. 🔗 Inside Out. Understanding the art of furniture making –

      Links to www.smb.museum

    4. 🔗 Men I Trust - Show Me How (garage session) –

      Links to www.youtube.com

    5. 🔗 Olamide Ogunade’s art –

      Links to olamideogunade.com

    6. 🔗 Behringer TORO –

      Links to www.youtube.com

    7. 🔗 Chompi –

      Links to www.youtube.com

    8. 🔗 Enhancing Directed Content Sharing on the Web (PDF) –

      Links to hci.stanford.edu

    9. 🔗 Largest known prime number –

      Links to en.wikipedia.org

    10. 🔗 GPT-4 –

      Links to openai.com

    11. 🔗 MathGPT –

      Links to mathgpt.streamlit.app

    12. 🔗 Cargobox by Meelis Lillemets –

      Links to lmets.carbonmade.com

    13. ⭐️ TIL how to allow notifications when screen recording on macOS –

    14. 🔗 TIL about Beamer for LaTeX –

      Links to en.wikipedia.org

    15. 🔗 Notes art –

      Links to notes.art

    16. 🔗 Patch Notes: Hélène Vogelsinger –

      Links to youtu.be

    17. 🔗 The Full Frod Story! Building a frog house for a Frod. –

      Links to youtu.be

    18. 🔗 The Shortcut –

      Links to www.bewitched.com

    19. ⭐️ I really love these paintings by John Gannam –

  21. February 2023

    1. 🔗 Cassette mixing 🤯 –

      Links to www.youtube.com

    2. 🔗 Dublin Goth New Wave Movement, 1989 –

      Links to www.youtube.com

    3. 🔗 The Circle (Shortfilm) –

      Links to vimeo.com

    4. 🔗 TIL about the useUnknownInCatchVariables compiler flag for TypeScript –

      Links to www.typescriptlang.org

    5. ⭐️ Mid-day ☀️ 📸 –

    6. 🔗 Living Alone in the Wild Siberian Forest for 20 years in Yakutia –

      Links to www.youtube.com

    7. ⭐️ Everyone thinks everyone is a scammer these days –

  22. January 2023

    1. 🔗 Love Trip – Takako Mamiya –

      Links to www.youtube.com

    2. ⭐️ Had to update Whitney – the font here –

    3. 🔗 Ana Vidović playing classical guitar –

      Links to www.youtube.com

    4. 🔗 Robohands - Green –

      Links to robohands.bandcamp.com

    5. 🔗 Casiopea - Mint Jams –

      Links to music.apple.com

    6. 🔗 Hydraulic Press Interpretive Dance –

      Links to www.youtube.com

    7. ⚠️ Modular Office Unit –

      Links to guglielmopoletti.com

      Just so it's clear: I did not make this modular office unit nor did I write a long-form article about it. This is a link to another site on the web. I got a super angry and confused email about this link post, read more about what happened…

    8. 🔗 TIL about IndieKit –

      Links to getindiekit.com

  23. December 2022

    1. 🔗 NO THANK YOU – Little Sims –

      Links to youtu.be

  24. August 2022

    1. 🔗 God’s Country Trailer –

      Links to youtu.be

  25. May 2022

    1. 🔗 New ❤️ album: Invisible Cities by A Winged Victory For The Sullen –

      Links to music.apple.com

  26. January 2022

    1. ⭐️ Some technologies last –

    2. 🔗 TIL about explain (analyze, buffers) in postgresql –

      Links to www.pgmustard.com

    3. ⭐️ 3 out of 3 💉💉💉 –

    4. 🔗 TIL about Gaia –

      Links to en.wikipedia.org

    5. 🔗 Where Is Webb? –

      Links to webb.nasa.gov

    6. 🔗 The Dark Forest –

      Links to youtube.com

    7. 🔗 The James Webb Space Telescope –

      Links to www.youtube.com

  27. May 2021

    1. ⭐️ Collaboration through software: digital paper and card catalogs –

  28. February 2021

    1. ⭐️ TIL about less -S –

  29. January 2021

    1. 🔗 Wonderful Portraits by Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe –

      Links to www.thisiscolossal.com

  30. December 2020

    1. ⭐️ TIL how to fix a formula conflict when updating brew –

    2. 🔗 TIL about HTTP Client Hints –

      Links to tools.ietf.org

    3. ⭐️ TIL about ELIXIR_CLI_DRY_RUN for elixir and iex –

  31. November 2020

    1. ⭐️ TIL ⌃\ sends SIGQUIT to the foreground process –

    2. 🔗 TIL one can exit iex with ⌃\ –

      Links to hexdocs.pm

  32. October 2020

    1. 🔗 Beogram 4000c • Recreated by Bang & Olufsen –

      Links to www.bang-olufsen.com

    2. ⭐️ “I am excessively slothful, and wonderfully industrious—by fits.” –

  33. September 2020

    1. 🔗 Dieter Rams Wallpapers –

      Links to www.arun.is

    2. 🔗 Connect, No Matter the Speed –

      Links to medium.com

  34. August 2020

    1. ⭐️ GitHub Profile README –

  35. July 2020

    1. 🔗 TIL about hub-sync –

      Links to hub.github.com

  36. June 2020

    1. 🔗 29 automata in 6 minutes –

      Links to m.youtube.com

    2. 🔗 TIL about AbortController –

      Links to developer.mozilla.org

    3. ⭐️ Your metrics might be lying to you – an example from Wunderlist –

  37. May 2020

    1. ⭐️ TIL about vim’s spellcheck –

    2. ⭐️ TIL about :term ++curwin –

    3. ⭐️ TIL about :lcd in vim –

  38. April 2020

    1. 🔗 This Video Has ___ Views –

      Links to www.youtube.com

  39. February 2020

    1. 🔗 Retail fonts · Klim Type Foundry –

      Links to klim.co.nz

  40. January 2020

    1. 🔗 A richer canvas –

      Links to markboulton.co.uk

    2. 🔗 Realistic pillows sculpted from blocks of white marble –

      Links to www.thisiscolossal.com

    3. ⭐️ Going public –

  41. December 2019

    1. 🔗 Elements of AI –

      Links to course.elementsofai.com

    2. 🔗 The world's most remote buildings on YouTube 📺 –

      Links to m.youtube.com

    3. ⭐️ A ryokan –

  42. November 2019

    1. 🔗 asipai ＋ Hibi Coffee in Kyoto –

      Links to andcoffee.net

    2. ⭐️ Music I love for traveling –

    3. 🔗 Petrichor by Artist Jean Jullien –

      Links to www.booooooom.com

    4. ⭐️ I've migrated off medium –

  43. June 2019

    1. ⭐️ How to install the macOS Catalina Beta alongside Mojave –

  44. May 2018

    1. ⭐️ Build your MVP today –

    2. ⭐️ I still don’t know how to use a debugger –

  45. April 2018

    1. ⭐️ Puma RS-0 –

    2. ⭐️ Karhu Synchron Classic –

  46. March 2018

    1. ⭐️ One week with the Atom text editor –

  47. September 2017

    1. ⭐️ Twenty-second Postmortem –

  48. July 2017

    1. ⭐️ A quick tip to help remember where you left off –

    2. ⭐️ A newsletter –

    3. ⭐️ Design a Minimal Product Roadmap instead of building an MVP –

  49. June 2017

    1. ⭐️ On queueing –

    2. ⭐️ ElixirConf EU 2017 in Barcelona –

    3. ⭐️ A way to procrastinate –

  50. January 2017

    1. ⭐️ Swift already has a Result type –

  51. November 2016

    1. ⭐️ I’m getting “engagement” –

  52. August 2016

    1. ⭐️ CloudKit –

  53. May 2016

    1. ⭐️ Be. –

  54. February 2016

    1. ⭐️ The Network Is Never There for You –

  55. November 2015

    1. ⭐️ Winter and small coffee –

  56. October 2015

    1. ⭐️ Two years in Berlin –

    2. ⭐️ Morning –

  57. March 2015

    1. ⭐️ How we allow any request to be safely repeated at anytime for Wunderlist –

    2. ⭐️ My core values –

  58. January 2015

    1. ⭐️ Make workflows for complicated tasks –

    2. ⭐️ Object Oriented System Architecture –

    3. ⭐️ Always use a CDN –

  59. December 2014

    1. ⭐️ Why make a Mash? –

  60. August 2014

    1. ⭐️ Notes on Contentment –

  61. December 2013

    1. ⭐️ Document semi-wacky — wacky things –

  62. July 2013

    1. ⭐️ Use technologies the rest of your team is motivated to use –

    2. ⭐️ Refactor only when you have some sort of tests –

  63. June 2013

    1. ⭐️ Change as little as possible to fix a problem –

  64. May 2013

    1. ⭐️ Be a good programmer –

    2. ⭐️ The Cost of Education –