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Looks like I predicted that I'd never podcast again after hearing Chuck Billy say "y'know" too many times. I was wrong, and the latest episode even has a segment about Testament that's informed by another interview with Chuck Billy.

10-4-4-4-4-11. Hooray for being able to sink out of a cloud of depressing thoughts with some physical grounding!

My friend Eric wrote a really good article on CSS Tricks about CSS functions. I've seen and used a lot of these before but haven't thought of them as functions. It's a very handy framing.

I also did not know that calc() and var() had landed. When I first heard of them, they were ghostly proposals, and I forgot that to check on their corporeality since then!

New Small Findings podcast! In this episode: pizza, stock buybacks, Amazon, Testament, and existential risk.

35-minute run, 10 pull-ups. Katt made me an elastic mask which has no chance of falling off but did make me breathe harder than the scarf did.

The new Consider the [animal] is out and is considerably less whimsical than previous installments. It’s about the Greenland Shark, which smells like pee and lives 500 years. It’s no less fascinating than the other ones, though.

Via Remy Sharp, I learned about people (I guess mostly Simon Willison) keeping TIL notes in git, then using an automated process to always keep the README in the repo up to date with a table of contents that always reflects all of the notes in the repo.

This is yet another form of what I think of "aggressive note taking." I started noticing it about three years ago with the `knowledge` repos. A lot of people, including me, starting putting up collections of markdown files in git repos. I kept up with it, but only added to it once a month or so.

A month ago, I came across Zettelkasten via Liam and so far, I've really liked it. The distinguishing features of this note-taking process are that you provide a unique id for each note and try to link every note to at least one other note so you have this big web of notes to walk around. I have been lazy about the linking. I mostly just use tags and ag to connect the notes.

Most of the benefit has been just for me personally. I'm able to recall things more easily, especially technical stuff. But I also share the stuff amenable to being spoke in the Small Findings podcast. I have to admit, though, I'm not sure I'll ever get fast enough at writing and recording the podcast for it to be sustainable.

If I can't, some kind of automated process like Simon's to release them in text is a good idea.

Webmentions is an interest standard, but it appears to have the problem of all new technologies; the only adopters seem to be a few people talking mostly about technology? I'm guessing this list is not complete, but I bet the complete list of users is less than ten times the size of that list.

Hey, this weblog is now Webmentionable! If you use webmention.app or any other implementation of webmention sending, I'll get notified. Next step: Pulling those webmentions into the posts, which might be tough because static-web-archive is meant to be append-only. I might have to use JS to pull them in, if I can keep that light.