Peter Rother’s Journal

From Kirby Kevinson’s blog:

In my opinion, ISO 8601 seems clearly superior to other date formats when it comes to international communication (such as posting things online), and as you can see, I have enough reasons to say so. While the format certainly has an audience, it’s unfortunate that it’s not as big as it could be.

It’s hard to believe we still need people to advocate for ISO 8601 in this decade.

While a bit bleak, we finally made it to Grand Teton National Park during our stay in Jackson, WY last week. The amount of snowfall was nearly unfathomable.

Would it be worth renting a car to drive to a store in New Jersey, or possibly Pennsylvania, to buy bags of dried pasta? For bucatini, we considered it. Bucatini is spaghetti but thicker and with a hole in it, meaning it absorbs 200 percent more sauce than its thinner, hole-free brethren, due to math. When asked via email for comment on bucatini’s allure, New York City pasta magnate Frank Prisinzano simply told me, “Lol it’s spaghetti with a hole in it. Who doesn’t like that?” In 2018, Bon Appétit deemed it the “best long pasta,” citing its powerful sauce-absorption capabilities and its general slurpiness. Bucatini Head Dan put it thusly: “There’s something about the hole. It feels more luxurious.”

I absolutely adored this read by Rachel Handler. Such lighthearted and candid journalism is more of what we need right now in this country.

Today, I created a new style for dead simple HTML pages called dirtcheapcss. It’s 348 bytes, works on mobile, supports dark mode, and reads pleasantly. I think it’s ideal for documentation, blogs, notes, and more, but feel free to use to your heart’s content.

We ticked off another national park 2 weeks ago in Colorado. Mesa Verde NP is not your typical NP with an expansive trail system, but it made up for it with mesmerizing cliff dwellings built by ancestral Puebloans.

From the Bootstrap Blog:

[…] we’re very happy to say that with v5, Bootstrap no longer depends on jQuery and we’ve dropped support for Internet Explorer. We’re sharpening our focus on building tools that are more future-friendly, and while we’re not fully there yet, the promise of CSS variables, faster JavaScript, fewer dependencies, and better APIs certainly feel right to us.

I am still in awe that this self-proclaimed and notably accurate small team of developers keeps cranking out such exciting, new, and significant updates, all while licensed under the MIT License.

I work with this front-end framework everyday in my day job and would have a remarkably cumbersome time without it. To have access to such an impressive, responsive, and accessible UI free of charge seems to me like it should be unheard-of.

I also just discovered they have an open collective link, where you can support the Bootstrap team monetarily. For me, this was a no-brainer.