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Let's say I'm a manufacturer of widgets, and instead of buying an off-the-shelf CRM I decide to have the resident IT whiz on the team vibe-code a custom solution for our needs. Now I'm a manufacturer of widgets AND a CRM SaaS shop, responsible for software maintenance/deployment/reliability/feature roadmap/bug remediation. I guess the idea is that AI agents will take care of all of those things too - to which I guess my perspective is "good luck! I hope that works out."

I just finished a green wood post-and-rung chairmaking class last week. The posts are split out and steam-bent, while the rungs are dried in a makeshift kiln (a box with a heat lamp). The posts are then above ambient humidity, while the rungs are dried below it. As the entire chair equals out, the posts will dry out and compress onto the tenons of the rungs, which will swell up a bit and lock in place. We did use glue but you don't really need to. Neat stuff.

The article in question is specifically about using Next.js to do what you are saying (generate static HTML files from a set of React components). He also mentions using Astro for it.

I've been on Qulipta (a CGRP drug) daily for about a year now. It started working pretty much immediately, and I cannot think of a single side-effect in use, other than that you will have a withdrawal period pretty much immediately if you miss a dose.

Before that I've used Rizatriptan to treat rather than prevent (works well, but can cause brain fog, mood swings and GI issues). In order to get approval for the CGRP I had to try lower-cost drugs like Verapamil (a calcium channel blocker) which had no effects at all, positive or negative, and Topiramate, which is the single worst medication I've ever used. Compared to all of those, the CGRP is a miracle and has been life-changing.

"The Sediments of Time" by Meave Leakey is fascinating both from her life and her family history.

"Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art" by Rebecca Wragg-Sykes is great.

"Almost Human" by Lee Berger is about one particular discovery rather than human origins as a whole but is an entertaining read - there was an accompanying PBS special (NOVA?) that's worth watching as well to really understand the scale of some of the caves they were in.

I've been transferring mine to Cloudflare as they come closer to renewal. Unfortunately Cloudflare doesn't allow punycode domains right now and I have one domain with an æ that might get orphaned.

Indiana is like this but I'd guess a lot of the Midwest is similar.

Brendan (the maker of these) is a fascinating, very smart guy. He's a very talented woodworker and wrote a great book on James Krenov. I was lucky to take a class he taught a few years ago, and I enjoy following his Instagram page to see the new projects he has going on.

You hear a lot from long-time woodworkers that this is unnecessary, as they are perfectly capable of using a table saw safely with just the riving knife/splitter and proper technique. Which is anecdotally true, but hard to accept with the actual data of 30k injuries a year. So it's not a question of _if_ there's a cost to society here, it's a question of _where_ we put the cost: up-front on prevention, or in response to injury in the healthcare system. Is the trade-off worth it to force all consumers to spend a few hundred dollars more for a job-site table-saw, if it means the insurance market won't have to bear several thousand for an injury? I'd say yes.

It's worth watching "Jodorowsky's Dune" if you haven't to see the direct-line connection - Jodorowsky happened to see "Dark Star" playing at a film festival while out in California and wanted whoever did the special effects to come work on his doomed "Dune" adaptation. He hired O'Bannon, who came out and met future Alien collaborators HR Giger and Moebius. It's fair to say Alien would not have happened, (or would not be the Alien we know now), if not for Dark Star.

I enjoy the Sprawl books the most, but of his three completed trilogies, I think either the Bridge Trilogy or the Blue Ant trilogy would be 1) more easily put to film and 2) possibly more enjoyable as television series.