👋 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

December 2024
1. ⭐️ Reactive DOM nodes + reactive templates for custom elements (web components) – 8 Dec, 2024
2. ⭐️ Building templates for custom elements (web components) – 7 Dec, 2024
November 2024
1. ⭐️ How to build custom elements that work no matter what order things are loaded – 26 Nov, 2024
2. ⭐️ How to manage reactive state using Custom Elements (Web Components) – 17 Nov, 2024
3. ⭐️ Why passkeys are good and you should be advocating for their use – 4 Nov, 2024
October 2024
1. ⭐️ The disharmony between “web components” (custom elements) and react-like “framework components” is real – 30 Oct, 2024
2. ⭐️ Reminded of the past, and to not repeat it – 27 Oct, 2024
May 2024
1. ⭐️ How I (Now) Backup My Photos – 14 May, 2024
April 2024
1. ⭐️ How I restored and setup my new (to me) $10 iPod shuffle (2nd Gen) with my M1 Mac running Sonoma – 30 Apr, 2024
January 2024
1. 🔗 Content Authenticity Initiative – 27 Jan, 2024
  Links to contentauthenticity.org
2. 🔗 1984 – 23 Jan, 2024
  Links to glass.photo
3. 🔗 Don’t Be a Sucker (1947) – 15 Jan, 2024
  Links to www.youtube.com
December 2023
1. 🔗 TIL about Promise.withResolvers() – 18 Dec, 2023
  Links to developer.mozilla.org
November 2023
1. ⭐️ Creating an immediate stereo mute in Eurorack 🤔 – 13 Nov, 2023
2. 🔗 Jordan Ward: Tiny Desk Concert – 9 Nov, 2023
  Links to www.youtube.com
3. 🔗 Cover of Backwater Blues by Sabrina, originally by Lightnin’ Hopkins – 5 Nov, 2023
  Links to www.youtube.com
4. 🔗 TIL about “Weltschmerz” – 3 Nov, 2023
  Links to www.psychologytoday.com
October 2023
1. ⭐️ That photograph on the side of the house on Gartenstraße in Berlin… – 30 Oct, 2023
2. 🔗 Unbundling AI by Benedict Evans – 27 Oct, 2023
  Links to www.ben-evans.com
3. 🔗 Possibly Maybe poster by Dotto – 18 Oct, 2023
  Links to www.dotto.studio
4. 🔗 NASA astronaut back on Earth after record-breaking spaceflight – 17 Oct, 2023
  Links to www.axios.com
5. 🔗 Fazerdaze – Bigger – 11 Oct, 2023
  Links to youtu.be
6. 🔗 Why Rappers Stopped Writing – 10 Oct, 2023
  Links to youtu.be
7. 🔗 electric-sql – Local-first sync for Postgres from the inventors of CRDTs – 9 Oct, 2023
  Links to electric-sql.com
8. 🔗 Desalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water – 5 Oct, 2023
  Links to news.mit.edu
9. 🔗 Convenience and scams – 5 Oct, 2023
  Links to seths.blog
September 2023
1. 🔗 Little Desktop Sculptures by Mohit Bhoite – 29 Sep, 2023
  Links to www.bhoite.com
2. 🔗 Oslo Transit Diagram – 27 Sep, 2023
  Links to t2design.no
3. 🔗 Water-Resistant “Research Notes” Notebook – 25 Sep, 2023
  Links to www.plain.tw
4. 🔗 new AsyncFunction – the async version of new Function – 20 Sep, 2023
  Links to picostitch.com
5. 🔗 Galileo Galilei’s First Drawings of the Moon After Seeing It Through the Telescope in 1609 – 18 Sep, 2023
  Links to www.vintag.es
6. ⭐️ Learning about Web Components: Part 4 – Researching pre-rendering custom elements and/or SSR – 17 Sep, 2023
7. ⭐️ Learning about Web Components: Part 3 – Define in a static initialization block – 13 Sep, 2023
8. 🔗 50 Short Rules for a Better Life (From the Stoics) – 12 Sep, 2023
  Links to www.swiss-miss.com
9. 🔗 The Feather Atlas at the US Fish and Wildlife Service – 11 Sep, 2023
  Links to www.fws.gov
10. 🔗 “We’re All Just Temporarily Abled” – 5 Sep, 2023
  Links to blog.jim-nielsen.com
11. 🔗 Supavisor: Scaling Postgres to 1 Million Connections – 4 Sep, 2023
  Links to supabase.com
August 2023
1. ⭐️ Learning about Web Components: Part 2 – Data access and UI updates – 27 Aug, 2023
2. 🔗 S.js and some thoughts about reactive state – 17 Aug, 2023
  Links to github.com
3. 🔗 She Was 300 Yards From the Atomic Bomb Center - and Survived Op-Docs – 10 Aug, 2023
  Links to www.youtube.com
4. 🔗 Ólafur Arnalds live from Hafursey, in Iceland for Cercle – 3 Aug, 2023
  Links to www.youtube.com
July 2023
1. 🔗 Getting started with View Transitions on multi-page apps by Dave Rupert – 21 Jul, 2023
  Links to daverupert.com
2. 🔗 Omega Sports Apple Computer Sneakers • Size 10.5 • on Sotheby’s – 20 Jul, 2023
  Links to www.sothebys.com
3. 🔗 Dive – Olivia Dean – 17 Jul, 2023
  Links to www.youtube.com
June 2023
1. 🔗 Embrace Complexity; Tighten Your Feedback Loops – 21 Jun, 2023
  Links to ferd.ca
2. 🔗 Today – Q – 7 Jun, 2023
  Links to music.apple.com
3. 🔗 Nation of Language - Full Performance (Live on KEXP) – 5 Jun, 2023
  Links to www.youtube.com
May 2023
1. 🔗 Nopia – 31 May, 2023
  Links to youtu.be
2. 🔗 Jordan Ward – CHERIMOYA – 18 May, 2023
  Links to youtu.be
3. 🔗 Rich Girl – Scary Pockets – featuring Arielle Kasnetz – 15 May, 2023
  Links to youtu.be
4. 🔗 Great Wave Off Kanagawa As Pixel Art by James Weiner – 12 May, 2023
  Links to www.hypertalking.com
5. ⭐️ The Man from Laramie – 8 May, 2023
6. ⭐️ Learning about Web Components: Part 1 – Getting Started – 6 May, 2023
7. 🔗 Mighty Vibe – 3 May, 2023
  Links to www.mightyaudio.co.uk
8. 🔗 Generate a QR Code in your shell with npx, qrcode-svg, and svgo – 1 May, 2023
  Links to mastodon.social
April 2023
1. 🔗 Testing the Web Share API – 28 Apr, 2023
  Links to www.raymondcamden.com
2. 🔗 Urth Explorer Filter Kit – 26 Apr, 2023
  Links to urth.co
3. 🔗 GaeaStar – 24 Apr, 2023
  Links to gaeastar.com
4. 🔗 The original Wilhelm Scream recording session – 21 Apr, 2023
  Links to blog.freesound.org
5. 🔗 Moving, a Short Film – 20 Apr, 2023
  Links to www.criterionchannel.com
6. 🔗 An Interview With Massimo Vitali – 19 Apr, 2023
  Links to www.present.xxx
7. 🔗 Dreamy Photography Settings – 18 Apr, 2023
  Links to www.youtube.com
8. 🔗 VIKING Trailer – 17 Apr, 2023
  Links to www.youtube.com
9. ⭐️ Ship the wrong thing to learn what’s right – 14 Apr, 2023
10. 🔗 Who invented vector clocks? – 12 Apr, 2023
  Links to decomposition.al
11. 🔗 Gawthorne’s Hut – 11 Apr, 2023
  Links to wilgowrah.com.au
12. 🔗 You Are Not Okay and Tomorrow Will Come – 5 Apr, 2023
  Links to humanparts.medium.com
13. 🔗 Art by Nathan Walsh – 4 Apr, 2023
  Links to www.nathanwalsh.net
14. 🔗 Slow Learning – 3 Apr, 2023
  Links to www.swiss-miss.com
March 2023
1. 🔗 The Art of the Copyist by The Met – 31 Mar, 2023
  Links to www.youtube.com
2. 🔗 Polaroid Lab – 29 Mar, 2023
  Links to www.polaroid.com
3. 🔗 Inside Out. Understanding the art of furniture making – 28 Mar, 2023
  Links to www.smb.museum
4. 🔗 Men I Trust - Show Me How (garage session) – 27 Mar, 2023
  Links to www.youtube.com
5. 🔗 Olamide Ogunade’s art – 22 Mar, 2023
  Links to olamideogunade.com
6. 🔗 Behringer TORO – 21 Mar, 2023
  Links to www.youtube.com
7. 🔗 Chompi – 20 Mar, 2023
  Links to www.youtube.com
8. 🔗 Enhancing Directed Content Sharing on the Web (PDF) – 16 Mar, 2023
  Links to hci.stanford.edu
9. 🔗 Largest known prime number – 15 Mar, 2023
  Links to en.wikipedia.org
10. 🔗 GPT-4 – 15 Mar, 2023
  Links to openai.com
11. 🔗 MathGPT – 14 Mar, 2023
  Links to mathgpt.streamlit.app
12. 🔗 Cargobox by Meelis Lillemets – 13 Mar, 2023
  Links to lmets.carbonmade.com
13. ⭐️ TIL how to allow notifications when screen recording on macOS – 11 Mar, 2023
14. 🔗 TIL about Beamer for LaTeX – 9 Mar, 2023
  Links to en.wikipedia.org
15. 🔗 Notes art – 8 Mar, 2023
  Links to notes.art
16. 🔗 Patch Notes: Hélène Vogelsinger – 7 Mar, 2023
  Links to youtu.be
17. 🔗 The Full Frod Story! Building a frog house for a Frod. – 6 Mar, 2023
  Links to youtu.be
18. 🔗 The Shortcut – 3 Mar, 2023
  Links to www.bewitched.com
19. ⭐️ I really love these paintings by John Gannam – 2 Mar, 2023
February 2023
1. 🔗 Cassette mixing 🤯 – 28 Feb, 2023
  Links to www.youtube.com
2. 🔗 Dublin Goth New Wave Movement, 1989 – 27 Feb, 2023
  Links to www.youtube.com
3. 🔗 The Circle (Shortfilm) – 26 Feb, 2023
  Links to vimeo.com
4. 🔗 TIL about the useUnknownInCatchVariables compiler flag for TypeScript – 11 Feb, 2023
  Links to www.typescriptlang.org
5. ⭐️ Mid-day ☀️ 📸 – 7 Feb, 2023
6. 🔗 Living Alone in the Wild Siberian Forest for 20 years in Yakutia – 7 Feb, 2023
  Links to www.youtube.com
7. ⭐️ Everyone thinks everyone is a scammer these days – 7 Feb, 2023
January 2023
1. 🔗 Love Trip – Takako Mamiya – 12 Jan, 2023
  Links to www.youtube.com
2. ⭐️ Had to update Whitney – the font here – 8 Jan, 2023
3. 🔗 Ana Vidović playing classical guitar – 8 Jan, 2023
  Links to www.youtube.com
4. 🔗 Robohands - Green – 7 Jan, 2023
  Links to robohands.bandcamp.com
5. 🔗 Casiopea - Mint Jams – 6 Jan, 2023
  Links to music.apple.com
6. 🔗 Hydraulic Press Interpretive Dance – 5 Jan, 2023
  Links to www.youtube.com
7. ⚠️ Modular Office Unit – 4 Jan, 2023
  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 – 4 Jan, 2023
  Links to getindiekit.com
December 2022
1. 🔗 NO THANK YOU – Little Sims – 17 Dec, 2022
  Links to youtu.be
August 2022
1. 🔗 God’s Country Trailer – 11 Aug, 2022
  Links to youtu.be
May 2022
1. 🔗 New ❤️ album: Invisible Cities by A Winged Victory For The Sullen – 9 May, 2022
  Links to music.apple.com
January 2022
1. ⭐️ Some technologies last – 26 Jan, 2022
2. 🔗 TIL about explain (analyze, buffers) in postgresql – 23 Jan, 2022
  Links to www.pgmustard.com
3. ⭐️ 3 out of 3 💉💉💉 – 12 Jan, 2022
4. 🔗 TIL about Gaia – 7 Jan, 2022
  Links to en.wikipedia.org
5. 🔗 Where Is Webb? – 3 Jan, 2022
  Links to webb.nasa.gov
6. 🔗 The Dark Forest – 2 Jan, 2022
  Links to youtube.com
7. 🔗 The James Webb Space Telescope – 1 Jan, 2022
  Links to www.youtube.com
May 2021
1. ⭐️ Collaboration through software: digital paper and card catalogs – 4 May, 2021
February 2021
1. ⭐️ TIL about less -S – 12 Feb, 2021
January 2021
1. 🔗 Wonderful Portraits by Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe – 17 Jan, 2021
  Links to www.thisiscolossal.com
December 2020
1. ⭐️ TIL how to fix a formula conflict when updating brew – 31 Dec, 2020
2. 🔗 TIL about HTTP Client Hints – 16 Dec, 2020
  Links to tools.ietf.org
3. ⭐️ TIL about ELIXIR_CLI_DRY_RUN for elixir and iex – 8 Dec, 2020
November 2020
1. ⭐️ TIL ⌃\ sends SIGQUIT to the foreground process – 5 Nov, 2020
2. 🔗 TIL one can exit iex with ⌃\ – 1 Nov, 2020
  Links to hexdocs.pm
October 2020
1. 🔗 Beogram 4000c • Recreated by Bang & Olufsen – 25 Oct, 2020
  Links to www.bang-olufsen.com
2. ⭐️ “I am excessively slothful, and wonderfully industrious—by fits.” – 22 Oct, 2020
September 2020
1. 🔗 Dieter Rams Wallpapers – 2 Sep, 2020
  Links to www.arun.is
2. 🔗 Connect, No Matter the Speed – 2 Sep, 2020
  Links to medium.com
August 2020
1. ⭐️ GitHub Profile README – 31 Aug, 2020
July 2020
1. 🔗 TIL about hub-sync – 15 Jul, 2020
  Links to hub.github.com
June 2020
1. 🔗 29 automata in 6 minutes – 13 Jun, 2020
  Links to m.youtube.com
2. 🔗 TIL about AbortController – 12 Jun, 2020
  Links to developer.mozilla.org
3. ⭐️ Your metrics might be lying to you – an example from Wunderlist – 10 Jun, 2020
May 2020
1. ⭐️ TIL about vim’s spellcheck – 21 May, 2020
2. ⭐️ TIL about :term ++curwin – 18 May, 2020
3. ⭐️ TIL about :lcd in vim – 15 May, 2020
April 2020
1. 🔗 This Video Has ___ Views – 9 Apr, 2020
  Links to www.youtube.com
February 2020
1. 🔗 Retail fonts · Klim Type Foundry – 12 Feb, 2020
  Links to klim.co.nz
January 2020
1. 🔗 A richer canvas – 22 Jan, 2020
  Links to markboulton.co.uk
2. 🔗 Realistic pillows sculpted from blocks of white marble – 18 Jan, 2020
  Links to www.thisiscolossal.com
3. ⭐️ Going public – 15 Jan, 2020
December 2019
1. 🔗 Elements of AI – 24 Dec, 2019
  Links to course.elementsofai.com
2. 🔗 The world's most remote buildings on YouTube 📺 – 23 Dec, 2019
  Links to m.youtube.com
3. ⭐️ A ryokan – 18 Dec, 2019
November 2019
1. 🔗 asipai ＋ Hibi Coffee in Kyoto – 30 Nov, 2019
  Links to andcoffee.net
2. ⭐️ Music I love for traveling – 22 Nov, 2019
3. 🔗 Petrichor by Artist Jean Jullien – 21 Nov, 2019
  Links to www.booooooom.com
4. ⭐️ I've migrated off medium – 21 Nov, 2019
June 2019
1. ⭐️ How to install the macOS Catalina Beta alongside Mojave – 17 Jun, 2019
May 2018
1. ⭐️ Build your MVP today – 17 May, 2018
2. ⭐️ I still don’t know how to use a debugger – 14 May, 2018
April 2018
1. ⭐️ Puma RS-0 – 16 Apr, 2018
2. ⭐️ Karhu Synchron Classic – 6 Apr, 2018
March 2018
1. ⭐️ One week with the Atom text editor – 26 Mar, 2018
September 2017
1. ⭐️ Twenty-second Postmortem – 22 Sep, 2017
July 2017
1. ⭐️ A quick tip to help remember where you left off – 28 Jul, 2017
2. ⭐️ A newsletter – 25 Jul, 2017
3. ⭐️ Design a Minimal Product Roadmap instead of building an MVP – 18 Jul, 2017
June 2017
1. ⭐️ On queueing – 29 Jun, 2017
2. ⭐️ ElixirConf EU 2017 in Barcelona – 27 Jun, 2017
3. ⭐️ A way to procrastinate – 22 Jun, 2017
January 2017
1. ⭐️ Swift already has a Result type – 23 Jan, 2017
November 2016
1. ⭐️ I’m getting “engagement” – 11 Nov, 2016
August 2016
1. ⭐️ CloudKit – 12 Aug, 2016
May 2016
1. ⭐️ Be. – 19 May, 2016
February 2016
1. ⭐️ The Network Is Never There for You – 26 Feb, 2016
November 2015
1. ⭐️ Winter and small coffee – 4 Nov, 2015
October 2015
1. ⭐️ Two years in Berlin – 13 Oct, 2015
2. ⭐️ Morning – 12 Oct, 2015
March 2015
1. ⭐️ How we allow any request to be safely repeated at anytime for Wunderlist – 24 Mar, 2015
2. ⭐️ My core values – 18 Mar, 2015
January 2015
1. ⭐️ Make workflows for complicated tasks – 26 Jan, 2015
2. ⭐️ Object Oriented System Architecture – 23 Jan, 2015
3. ⭐️ Always use a CDN – 17 Jan, 2015
December 2014
1. ⭐️ Why make a Mash? – 19 Dec, 2014
August 2014
1. ⭐️ Notes on Contentment – 10 Aug, 2014
December 2013
1. ⭐️ Document semi-wacky — wacky things – 5 Dec, 2013
July 2013
1. ⭐️ Use technologies the rest of your team is motivated to use – 28 Jul, 2013
2. ⭐️ Refactor only when you have some sort of tests – 11 Jul, 2013
June 2013
1. ⭐️ Change as little as possible to fix a problem – 3 Jun, 2013
May 2013
1. ⭐️ Be a good programmer – 29 May, 2013
2. ⭐️ The Cost of Education – 8 May, 2013