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Happy New Years! 🎉🎉🎉

This has been a long year of new adventures and hills and valleys for me, I'm excited to see what 2025 brings 💜.

Reading

• Addison Crump posted about fuzzing and cybersecurity in the automotive industry: https://addisoncrump.info/research/lessons-learned-from-acs/.

  He followed up with a post about his recent fuzzing talk wrt automobiles: Vector Automotive Cybersecurity Symposium: To Fuzz, or Not To Fuzz.

  Play

• Houston Chronicle wrote a cute story about Houston's unofficial bird: An appreciation of the grackle, the rule of Houston's parking lots.

• Josh Comeau wrote about how he determines CSS feature support for his websites: https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/browser-support/

• Gwen Howerton diatribed the past year of our interesting new mayor's incandescent tendencies: Let's remember what Houston Mayor John Whitmire got mad at in 2024

• Walkability and fashion go hand in hand 🤝 in turns out

  

  usa.streetsblog.orgWalkable This Way: How Fashionista Derek Guy Became One of the Nation's Best-Known Urbanists — Streetsblog USAThe menswear icon has used his vast social media platform to wade into another culture war by promoting walkable neighborhoods over the alienating lifestyle of suburban sprawl.

• Build it, and they will come but for safe streets:

  

  Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social

  

  Never forget, when you’re being asked to prove that safe bike-lanes or pedestrian crossings across unsafe conditions are ‘needed,’ it's hard to justify a bridge by the number of people swimming across a raging river.

  

  November 20, 2024 at 5:55 AM UTC

Watching

Enjoyed watching this video about spices, it tracks with what I know from coffee (grind as close to use as possible, prevent oxidation and allowing volatile compounds from escaping, why you muddle mint for a cocktail and always use fresh basil over dried b/c the terpenes float away).

DanDaDan is a solid, high-paced anime, loving watching the first season come out!

Music

• Valitos & Friends by Valitos is a fun album of Scottish drums & bass.
• Loving Paradise by IMANU. They always supply some solid bleeps n bloops.

Dopamine by madelline is a bop. 💖

ZEALOT by Dead Icarus is fun too

Big fan of house of decline's music: Psychogeography by Anti-Spectacular 🎶. Some fun existential jazz??

Haus of Decline@hausofdecline.bsky.social

Listen to my album! It is of a very high quality. Sounds like if Ween were girls.

Haus of Decline@hausofdecline.bsky.social

My album Psychogeography is now available on Bandcamp. It is one of the best albums of the year (actually). anti-spectacular.bandcamp.com/album/psycho...

anti-spectacular.bandcamp.com

November 25, 2024 at 2:43 PM UTC

website 🕸️ upgrades

Now I can embed bsky posts thanks to astro-embed and Matt Kane:

Matt Kane@mk.gg

🚀❤️🦋 You can now embed posts in your Astro pages, with no client-side JS! Just pass it the post URL and it generates the right embed with static HTML and CSS. Works in both Astro and MDX pages. Supports embedded images, video, quoted posts, starter packs and more. And yes, it supports dark mode.

astro-embed.netlify.app

Bluesky Post

Learn how to use the Astro Embed BlueskyPost component to embed Bluesky posts in your website

November 11, 2024 at 3:29 PM UTC

As well as have nice code blocks via astro-expressive-code + expressive-code-color-chips.

a:link {
  color: light-dark(
    oklch(49.7% 0.2972777928415759 264.05202063805507),
    oklch(86.25% 0.067 268.23)
  );
}