I love Bourdain but wanted to note he did have a culinary school background. Also came from a wealthy family.

I had the same impression: bottom line up front, didn’t bury the lede, no weasel language.

There are some wonderful photos and stories here, salute to the people at Texas Highways for putting this together.

From the article:

"The day was dubbed Emancipation Day but, slowly, the term Juneteenth — a portmanteau of June and 19th — took hold."

Debating the name instead of appreciating the holiday and gravity of the topic is missing the forrest for the trees. Just wow.

Thank you for the extra notes, this is top of mind for me.

Claude Code has been creating and cleaning up lots of Git messes for me.

Definitely! One of the best museums I’ve ever been to.

There’s a huge need for this, thank you! I build server-rendered marketing sites and there’s a huge gulf between the jQuery and React era.

Have you played with Alpine.js before? HTMX?

I think you can get quite far these days WITHOUT React or Vue.js (and I say that as the maintainer of a Next.js/React open source project [1]).

[1]: https://pagescms.org

Yep, I’ve used Alpine extensively and HTMX here and there. Lots of Vue.

There are not sets of polished, battle-tested UI libraries made for server side. Bootstrap ships with JS, but most of the CSS and template frameworks assume you’re using a headless setup.

I thought Web Components might spur things, but not really. React has continued to dominate.

What do you use on the server? Basecoat has Nunjucks and Jinja macros, but I’d like to add more (e.g. blade, liquid, etc). I also plan on building more layout demos (e.g. marketing pages).

YouTube Shorts are full of AI animal videos with distorted proportions, living in the wrong habitat, and so on. They popped up on my son’s account and I hate them for the reasons you outline. They aren’t cartoonish enough explain away, nor realistic enough to be educational.

And have you watched the brain rot that is Tik toks?

I saw Meru in a theater and sat in the parking lot afterwards wondering what I just watched.

One advantage is that they keep the same design for many years so each time you use it you get better/faster. You know what to expect.