Florian Eckerstorfer @florianec@mastodon.social

📚 I recently read The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai. One of these books that makes you feel all the emotions.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ http://rebeccamakkai.com/work/the-great-believers/

[…] recently surpassed a “strategically significant” benchmark of 69,420 active users, Musk told MWC.

Am I the only who finds it odd that Grimes is in a relationship with a 15 year old boy? (source https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/29/22556031/elon-musk-spacex-starlink-users-next-year-telecom-5g

🔗 Organize your CSS declarations alphabetically https://ericwbailey.design/writing/organize-your-css-declarations-alphabetically/

Ready for my vacation.

🔗 React Architecture: How to Structure and Organize a React Application

Pretty good introduction into setting up a clean architecture for React apps by Tania Rascia. https://www.taniarascia.com/react-architecture-directory-structure/

Oh yeah. I got my vaccination appointments today. First shot on June 28. 💉💉💉

I finally added a second Sonos One to my desk setup and a stereo pair sounds so much better. The improvement is definitely more than 2x.

Bat For Lashes released a Livestream album, it’s beautiful and so 2021: Livestream at Home. Los Angeles, 2021 https://batforlashes.bandcamp.com/album/livestream-at-home-los-angeles-2021

🔗 A Love Letter to HTML & CSS by Ashley Kolodziej for CSS-Tricks. https://css-tricks.com/a-love-letter-to-html-css/

Girlfriend: “I need to tell you something very important…
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🎵 Back in the 90s
I was I in a very faaaaaamous teeeeeveee show 🎵”

Socialized streaming would not be a fix-all, but it would be a step away from a culture shaped by profit motives and a step toward new logics of listening online. And it could seed paradigm shifts for the way we think about cultural consumption and how we value creative labor.

🔗 Free... https://notes.florian.ec/2021/05/11/socialized-streaming-would.html

📝 New blog: Responsive SVGs with Constant Font Size https://florian.ec/blog/responsive-svg-constant-font-size/

📝 New blog: JSX as Templating Language and Astro https://florian.ec/blog/jsx-templating-astro/

Number of Homes

I will turn 35 this year and this is only the fourth flat I lived in (and the 2nd city):

childhood flat in Linz
first flat in Vienna in Meidling
flat in Alsergrund
flat in Josefstadt

(I’m not counting the one my parents lived in for the first month of my live.) https://css-tricks.com/number-of-homes/

Problem and solution

1Blocker 4 is amazing. It can block trackers in apps by setting up local network filtering. You no longer have to run a VPN. Bye, bye Guardian. https://apps.apple.com/at/app/1blocker-ad-blocker-privacy/id1365531024?l=en

🔗 Cryptocurrency is an abject disaster https://drewdevault.com/2021/04/26/Cryptocurrency-is-a-disaster.html

📝 New blog: Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia https://florian.ec/blog/silvia-moreno-garcia-mexican-gothic/

📝 New blog post: Creating pages from data with Eleventy https://florian.ec/blog/eleventy-data-pages/

🔗 The Infrastructural Power Beneath the Internet as We Know It by Ingrid Burrington for The Reboot

I’ve lately been trying an exercise where, when reading anything by or about tech companies, I replace uses of the word “infrastructure” with “means of production.” https://thereboot.com/the-infrastructural-power-beneath-the-internet-as-we-know-it/