Rach Smith'sNotes &
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I feel like I’ve spent a lot this year - nothing crazy or that we can’t afford - but the online shopping has tipped in to more of a dopamine chasing thing rather than acquiring things we actually need or improve our life. I have literally everything I could want at this point. So I decided to do a “no buy” for November - maybe the toughest month to do such a thing. And yet, as the Sales emails and texts roll in, I feel a sense of peace as I delete, delete, delete and unsubscribe. I am free.

How good is being a full-stacker? You can make anything you want!!!

I’ve been rewriting one of my home-cooked SvelteKit apps with Go and DataStar. Had to wrap my head around the paradigm shift (I’ve never tried HTMX) and deepen my understanding of Go templates… but now that’s done, I’m loving the simplicity of this stack!! I think it will be my go-to for future personal web apps.

Shouts to the YNAB team for making some top quality web software. I've been using the site for 8 years, have not run in to anything buggy or broken even once. I can do everything with the keyboard! And they blessedly haven't added any bullshit AI "features". Mad respect. Here are your flowers 💐.

Anybody else compulsively hit ⌘+S no less than 5 times per save?

As a kid I was resentful about being made to learn classical piano while other kids got to play pop songs. Now I’m like why would I want to play pop when Beethoven is lit.