Happy Winter Solstice. The light is coming! This is the Holly King who is now at the peak of his powers. Fortunately his ascension is complete so we can look forward to the emergence of the Oak King and moving into the light. From my reduction linocut ‘The Holly King versus The Oak King’.

Inside you there are two weasels. Sorry, we ran out of wolves.

Early Winter Solstice piece Mari Bringer of Light

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A student's paper just described the interaction between Homo sapiens and Neandertals as "a situationship rather than a relationship" and I'm still laughing ten minutes later 💀🏺

I assume this is actually a setup but also these two boys give me life

Love this. I have definitely been in anti Grinch mode this year.

Just for a microsecond I nearly felt sorry for Jake Paul but then I was like nah

I totally thought this was a real Bryan Johnson thing

Solstice vibes low winter sun

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Banger episode. Kun is extremely smart.

How about if I just poasted something stupid

no we don't need to invest more heavily in oil and gas right now you awful goober

this is just so fucking... human. i don't know. empathy is in short supply and this short communication is... life.

that yglesias gets gets guy worse by the day. honestly wtf.

i mean. we live in algorithms. but yeah, ask your mates, and maybe read a film review of two.

My wife apparently wants a nutmeg grater for Christmas. 😂

recent tech company price hikes - it's partly because they've over-invested in AI, isn't it?

Great list. Don't know what we will have yet, but a banger Stilton obvs.

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This is a hauntingly beautiful rock song. My friend @monadic.bsky.social just shared it with me and I am properly floored. Anatolian rock, 1974. Puts me a bit in mind of Jefferson Airplane. What a *banger*. youtu.be/F-k_Fr67bPQ?...

got a full-body shiver of relief

The Bonehorse of Hookland #BookmarkoftheDay @hookland.bsky.social

really leaning into attention deficits to try and get everything done i need to, to close out Q4. scattergun shot for real. it's *kind* of working for me.

Biden brought American manufacturing back but Trump is strangling it once again

yeah you should read this marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-...

@vintageobscura.net is absolutely delightful, swiftly turning into my favourite feed. this tune is great.

Icymi - my colleague @kateholterhoff.com on the state of bundlers and JavaScript performance redmonk.com/kholterhoff/...

You're welcome. Love the way the swing is shot through with humour. Those whinnies are everything 🐴🎺

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Be good at some point to have a technology approach that is not just about shaking the magic money tree, and instead addresses national capabilities and resilience and engages with the realities of modern geopolitics

In this @redmonk.com post, I argue that given how much time developers waste waiting for builds, the investment is reasonable, but there’s an irony here. Huge amounts of energy have gone into improving DevX, while the actual runtime performance of what ships to the browser remains an afterthought.

Have you been following the JavaScript Bundler Grand Prix? Consider recent announcements including @voidzero.dev's Vite+, @bytedance.bsky.social's Rspack 1.6, @vercel.com's @nextjs.org 16 (beta) release enabling Turbopack by default, & @anthropic.com's Bun acquisition. redmonk.com/kholterhoff/...

When Kafka was writing he was writing about the US healthcare system.

This is true, but also 10 years is far too conservative.

He's not wrong. Some really nice items here.

10000% “every team that scales content on git builds the same workarounds”

Another little bit of inspiration I made for you

Well said!

Samus

after Lee Robinson migrated cursor away from sanity.io and explained why, Knut Melvær, head of developer community at Sanity wrote this piece, which I think is eminently sensible. maintaining software is a pain in the ass, and there is a reason we have CMSs www.sanity.io/blog/you-sho...

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Love this bowl so much

I always share black cats

I'd like to ride my bike more often and wish it felt safer. "According to the new study, bike production has ballooned over the last 60 years. 123 million bikes were produced in 2015 - up from 20.7 million bikes in 1962."

Winter run. Lovely, though I hit a bit of a wall at 17k.

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