Updates: page 61

A fabulously pragmatic, balanced piece on the new Slack logo by @paulrobertlloyd.

https://paulrobertlloyd.com/2019/01/slacks_new_logo

You can now add an updatesFeed to your personalsit.es entry to link to your notes/links/micro blog section of your site.

You can also now anchor to your entry like this: https://personalsit.es/#https://andy-bell.design.

https://github.com/andybelldesign/personalsit.es

I think I might collect links to sites of folks who are posting notes on their personal sites on GitHub.

It’d be great if y’all could send me some links so I can start it off with a nice healthy list!

This is great by @tcodinat. Google Sheets is a great way of creating a data source and the API is lovely to work with.

I’m having a lot of success with it powering some data on a Node app at the moment.

https://medium.com/@tcodinat/how-to-use-google-sheets-as-a-cms-or-a-database-f9d8e736fdce

I can’t help but think how uninspiring the tech world is vs when I started in ‘09.

We had MySpace pages to hack at and GeoCities sites to muck around with.

Now we have Typescript and arguments about CSS.

I worry about how many people we lose early to this.