Aaron Moodie

Later this year, we’ll unveil a whole new look for Hanami, Dry and Rom. Here’s a preview!

This will be a huge boost for our projects, I can already feel it.

Thank you to @aaronmoodie.com for bringing this to life! Also to @makenosound.bsky.social who’s already getting our new website into shape.

Photos Show the Vast Scale of China’s Solar Power Projects Over at the Atlantic, Alan Taylor has collected a bunch of photos showing just how hard China is pushing on solar energy. As the Trump administration’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” eliminates many clean-energy incentives i

Photos Show the Vast Scale of China’s Solar Power Projects. “China continues huge investments in wind and solar power, reportedly accounting for 74 percent of all projects now under construction worldwide.” [kottke.org]

Speculative theory: Bluey is driving up property prices in Brisbane.

@craigmod.com enjoyed your piece on Literary Hub. Curious about what you use to take notes as you’re walking. Do you record audio and then convert to text, or dictate straight into Notes etc?

So the Remix / React Router situation has me thoroughly confused. If I'm wanting to start a new 'Remix' project today– which I intemperate as a full-stack app–should I be using Remix or React Router 7 in 'Framework' mode? 🤷

I've been thinking about a substack alternative, where the main selling point is the editor and publishing experience. As well as BYO domains, folks can BYO hosting, as each blog would be exported as a static site. The network is still there for discovery, but there's no platform lock-in.

Wherever you go, there you are.

lol, replied to the wrong post. Should have been the "static as a server" post.

“Static is a server that runs ahead of time" is a great, clarifying line. You should put this at the start of the article. Or even the as the title.

I think about this calendar often. Both for its ingenuity and creativity, and for its lack of success.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interna...

I didn’t. I’m happy with lobste.rs for now.

Even our website are reboots.

Spielberg is producing a sequel to The Goonies. Almost 40 years after the original was released in June 1985, Warner Bros. has hired Potsy Ponciroli to write the script for a sequel to The Goonies, with Steven Spielberg, Kristie Macosko Krieger, an...

Sequels and reboots frustrate me – where are all the new ideas?. But perhaps they mark the death throes of our self-referential culture. Let it fade away. A new generation's fresh ideas are waiting to emerge.

www.theverge.com/news/613279/...

Apple ordered to open encrypted user accounts globally to UK spying The secret order would give the UK access to encrypted backups belonging to any user — not just Brits.

Installing government cameras in every household worldwide would be less invasive than what’s being proposed here.
www.theverge.com/news/608145/...

The challenge is there is truth to this – bureaucracies have become complex and opaque. They are after all run by fallible humans. However, Instead of dismantling everything, we can look to examples like Taiwan where technology has been used to improve democracy through transparency and openness.

This includes how bureaucratic systems – critical for the survival of democracy – become complex, opaque and distrusted by the public. This in turn makes them a target for Populists, who advocate to 'fix' the problem by dismantling the very mechanisms that keep democracy functioning.

Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari The acclaimed author of modern classic Sapiens turns his attention to the power of information ne...

If you want to better understand what is happening in the US, read Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari. While the book's main focus is AI, the historical context on how information flows outlines the Populist playbook that Trump is following.
app.thestorygraph.com/books/278c44...

We were camping at the foreshore. Same view though 🙂 Were staying in that amazing modernist place? I didn't realise it was bookable. Next time!

‘Design Engineer’ as a Job Title David Darnes asks: Is 2025 the Year of the ‘Design Engineer’? It’s arguably a bit of a new term and being used more and more as a job title. Like most job titles, it doesn’t have the strongest agreed ...

Once again, thanks @chriscoyier.net for the mention of my #DesignEngineer article on the @zeroheight.com blog. Explains why we're seeing more traffic than usual 😄

Is that looking at the Prom from Walkerville?

I'm happy to announce a major sponsorship of Hanami and @timriley.info. I want to see more useful frameworks and tools for building Ruby apps and I don't know of a better option today than Hanami. 🌸

www.mikeperham.com/2025/01/17/s...

Great, thank you!

@raf.eco what rundown was this?

Hang in there! It gets easier. I found the distraction of work helps.

You did! Not sure how I missed this. Thanks!

@caseynewton.bsky.social @kevinroose.com can you please invite Yuval Noah Harari on Hard Fork to discuss Nexus.

Visualizing a Trillion: Just How Big That Number Is?

Just how much is a billion dollars? This article visualises what an obscene amount of wealth it actually is.

www.labnol.org/internet/vis...

Declarative signals Bringing signals to HTML.

What would happen if we had a way of defining signals directly in HTML?

@macwright.com Hey Tom, curious what web frameworks (if any) you're using with Deno to build Val Town. Curious after you mentioned Val Town being built around "Deno's magic" in your 2025 predictions post.