This is a fun insight, thank you for sharing that!

I like Vite as a tool, but knowing that the Vite folks actually care about helping others learn and contribute is awesome.

If you like Ruby but don't like Rails, take a look at Crystal, possibly with the Amber framework.

I have my complaints about the JS/TS ecosystem, but I'm surprised to see a comment that it's verbose and "boilerplatey."

Could you elaborate on that?

Personally, I like that my handwriting has tiny inconsistencies in every character and rarely-repeated flourishes.

I don't want to manufacture something that looks like it, but loses the soul of it.

I used something like this tool to create 10 different fonts of my handwriting. Then I wrote scripts to randomize which font was used for each character, ensuring that no word had that same variant of a single letter. It worked incredibly well for a personalized printed mail campaign. It really did look hand written.

edit: basically what DANmode replied to the same parent. I did this 10 years ago while running for political office.

Coming Soon: Make multiple fonts of your handwriting samples, and have a robot interlace them pseudorandomly!

I agree. I make adjustments depending on which parts of the page I'm on and what I'm writing. This is a nice project but I'm not sure id want to use it for anything.

I don't use 11ty. However, it seems a little odd to me that such a popular tool would have a Kickstarter for a rebrand. Am I missing something?

So, I have an XMPP account, but no one to talk to. How do you find people who use it?

There's a room index at: https://search.jabber.network/

I was kinda hoping someone in this thread would post their server they made using this tutorial.

My feelings on AI are complicated.

It's very useful as a coding autocomplete. It provides a fast way to connect multiple disparate search criteria in one query.

It also has caused massive price hikes for computer components, negatively impacted the environment, and most importantly, subtly destroys people's ability to understand.

I've come to the same conclusions. I don't think the feelings are complicated though. It's just personal when you find use in it. It's kind of like cryptocurrency in the way that it doesn't democratize efficiency and usefulness amongst everyone. So for a few it is a powerful and useful tool, but ultimately at the cost of everything else.

Thanks, this summarised my feelings as well.

This site taught me a new way to do drop-caps. It looks good on multiple types of device!

If nothing else, I'm grateful for that.

Minecraft introduced me to the idea of tuff. This gives me more ways to play with it.

I still don't know what it is.

It's a rock formed from volcanic ash.

Sort of igneous, because it came out of a volcano, but sort of sedimentary, because it starts out as an accumulation of powder that becomes a solid piece.

So that deserves five months of imprisonment and inhumane conditions?

Gosh, we have very different ideas of policy.