2026-01-21 08:00:00
Last weekend I quietly launched another section in this website: a chronological feed that aggregates everything I post here, e.g. blog posts, quick reviews, photographies and cool links, all in one place.
I’ve struggled to think of a good name for it. I felt like “Timeline” could mean something else, as people usually use “Timeline” on their websites to talk about their life timeline or something like that. So, for now, I just went with “Feed”. I like it because it’s very creative.
The reasoning behind it is that I found it a bit annoying that you had to open 4 pages to see if I had posted anything new (unless you use RSS, which makes you awesome 🫶). Now, you only need to open one! I am sure everyone will make good use of these precious seconds that are being saved!
This is something I had designed quite a while ago, but always postponed building for some unknown reason. I took huge inspiration from the way Phanpy groups notifications by date, and did the same here. The initial idea was to have some fancy filtering, but I chose to skip it just so that I could get it out there. Maybe someday.
Dealing with the data fetching was also quite easy: even though Astro handles each post type as a separate collection, the fact that my website is static means I don’t have to worry much about performance: I just query for everything, sort by date, then only get the posts I need (12-ish per page). It’s only gonna run once anyway, so I don’t have to do anything fancy for that query. Simplicity is awesome.
I also wanted to make sure days don’t get cut off on pagination. i.e. if I’m showing 12 items per page but the 13th item is in the same day as the 12th one, they’re gonna show up together. Again, easily doable because I load all posts before building the pages. It’d probably be very annoying to do otherwise.
2026-01-19 05:01:11
I definitely didn’t expect seeing a new major jQuery release in 2026, but here it is! This is the first major release in 10 years and it doesn’t bring a lot of new things on the surface, but seems to have been a major overhaul behind the scenes. Looks like a future v5 will bring in bigger changes.
jQuery might be old by JS framework standards, but it’s still very useful, and I actually still use it almost daily at my job.
2026-01-19 03:00:10
The Truth About Lying (and why we do it) (video), by Miss Chalice
Excuse me, I’m in a Lies of P obsession right now. This video (which contains some light spoilers) talks about the Truth/Lie choices in the game, which are an incredible narrative device, and how that relates to what makes us human.
It’s not surprising that a game based on the story of Pinocchio would have Lies and “becoming human” as parts of its theme, but I really like how they made it all make sense organically and not just like something they tacked in there because they had to.
2026-01-18 20:00:00
Lies of P Overture
2025, Neowiz
My rating: Loved it!
This prequel to Lies of P is everything that was good about the base game, but elevated into a 12-hour long campaign of pure awesomeness.
The story, level design, bosses and weapons are just state of the art. The final chapter had my eyes all teared up all the time.
Each chapter even has self-contained small side quests that don’t give much of a challenge but are great pieces of world-building to make Krat an even cooler setting.
2026-01-17 18:15:58
A Website To End All Websites, by Henry Desroches
This is a very interesting read that compares the internet’s development to that of the automobile, but I also want to highlight the design of the article itself. So good 🤌
2026-01-17 18:04:48
Ian's Shoelace Site, by Matt Fantinel
This is awesome: an entire site dedicated to shoelaces, how to lace, tie or simply learn about them. It even includes the “world’s fastest shoelace knot”, created by the website’s author himself! I gotta try it out.
