Project tech choices often dictate the tools you end up using. I've spent my fair share of time in IntelliJ, VS Code, Vim, OSX, Linux and various terminal emulators. Most of them have an abundance of features, extensions and configuration. Every now and then I step away from the status quo and gravitate towards simple tools.

Lately for me that's been Helix running in Alacritty. It's nice

If you write any kind of data processing code in javascript and haven't heard of Fast Check do yourself a favour and go learn it. Even just sampling values by composing arbitraries can provide insight.

Quick-Check style libraries like this should be first-class in all language ecosystems. Put em straight in std libs! it could only result in higher quality software.

Cloudflare Pages has been a strong option for hosting static sites for a while now but the announcements this week really up the game for full stack apps.

• Bindings to D1 (open alpha)
• Secret Support
• Logs
• Upcoming support for Queues & Workers Analytics Engine

It feels like the right time for more ambitious projects and experiments on CFP.

Here's an interesting architecture for a reporting site.

1. Incremental ETL script that updates a local DuckDB file
2. A static Astro site where templates can directly leverage DuckDB's rich analytical queries
3. The built site is published to Cloudflare Pages (or similar)

The steps above run on a schedule in github actions. The DB file is cached and restored on every run (but can be rebuilt if lost).

Including tweets in notes and articles used to be as simple as importing the component in mdx.

<Tweet id="1588546958615977985" />

Update: Feb 4th, 2023. Unfortunately twitter will cut off free access to their api. I definitely don't care about sharing tweets on this site enough to pay for access. It's a bit of a shame to see it become more of a walled garden.

I should be able to post extra small thoughts. Not everything has to be an article right?