Blog posts
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TIL: Why Date.parse gives unexpected results for GMT
TL;DR: Timezones are weird Someone posted about this in a Discord server I’m on: Javascript’s Date object has a parse function, Date.parse that takes a string can converts it to a timestamp. If you give it a non-standard string, in this case Jan 1, 1 […]
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My week in media
Inspired by Thomas Rigby, here’s what I’ve been watching/reading/listening to for the last week: Watching Society of the Snow - Harrowing, but an incredible watch Bob’s Burgers - Always nice to return to a comfort show Reading Sea of Rust, C. Ro […]
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Theory: Lara Croft is a vampire
I’ve had COVID[1], which means I’ve had more time than usual to play video games. So, I figured I’d replay the Square Enix Tomb Raider trilogy. For the unaware, these are reboots of the famous Tomb Raider games that aim to be gritty, realistic, poorl […]
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The web doesn't want to be browsed
Arc Browser published a… controversial update this week. The TL;DR of it is that it’s got a feature that will automatically open the top search result for you, rather than taking you to a search engine. I’ve seen a fair emount of criticism of this de […]
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Detecting Markdown titles with Eleventy
I use Obsidian for note-taking, and I’d love to publish those notes somewhere I can easily browse them, personal-wiki style, and ideally I’d want to use Eleventy to do it. The main blocker is that Obsidian uses file slug/Markdown titles, whereas Elev […]
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