Ten things in tech I found joy in during 2024

for me joy came from coding with a gpt copilot, where I can take ideas from dream to demo in a day instead of weeks. switching from osx back to a linux laptop after over a decade as I think linux is where the creative culture is based now, revisiting a gnuradio tutorial and using the Maths eurorack module to make music because I think an intuition for analog is the next superpower. on the lower-tech level, a new chainsaw and a very fine handmade splitting axe brought many days of contemplation and joy.

Some of the things the author mentioned really resonated with me. This year I finally got around to building a blog for my astrophotography and I did it on top of Hugo and it's an absolute delight. Minimal JavaScript, learned a whole bunch of stuff since it'd been forever since I was in frontend.

And seeing it load in tens of milliseconds absolutely delights me. Especially in this day and age of massive frameworks, and massive load times.

Nice list. Though point 1 is interesting: I've never thought of python v2 and v3 as being uniquely distinct from each other. Maybe I'm not using all of v3 cool features.

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