Brian Jones @jonesbp@sunbeam.city

Have really been enjoying getting into petite-vue for a little progressive enhancement on some client work this weekend. Nice to be able to use the reactivity mental model of Vue without a full app framework. https://github.com/vuejs/petite-vue

Stoked on this Kerry Awn illustration we commissioned for Local Memory, which I’ve finally gotten on the homepage. https://local-memory.org

Heartened by Flickr’s response to the removal of the Internet Archive Book Images collection. Hope that the details all work out well, but the direction of the reaction is definitely encouraging. Well done. https://www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/72157720510495566/#reply72157720613909345

Flickr has deleted over 5 million book scan images associated with the Internet Archive Book Images collection and their related user-contributed metadata. Consider signing an open letter asking that Flickr reconsider its decision. https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2022/04/5-million-book-illustrations-deleted-from-flickr

The always great BBSP theorizes the U.G.H.Z. (Un-Grammable Hang Zone), an aesthetic fixation of mine I have always struggled to articulate. Kafé Kerouac is my favorite local U.G.H.Z. I’m always on the lookout in new towns, but they are harder and harder to find. https://www.blackbirdspyplane.com/p/un-grammable-hang-zone-manifesto

If I see a cassette cover with a Bodys Isek Kingelez installation come through my email, you have my attention. If your promo copy then namechecks DJ Screw, I’m in. I had heard a bit of La Roche, but this new one from Nyege Nyege Tapes is revelatory. https://nyegenyegetapes.bandcamp.com/album/liye-liye

If I see a cassette cover with a Bodys Isek Kingelez installation come through my email, you have my intention. If your promo copy then namechecks DJ Screw, I’m in. I had heard a bit of La Roche, but this new one Nyege Nyege Tapes is revelatory. https://nyegenyegetapes.bandcamp.com/album/liye-liye

Daily meeting with the homies

The frost on today’s morning walk was wild.

Started experimenting with rebuilding my personal website (untouched through the COVID era) with Astro. Already excited to see much better it could be for some of the cases in which I reach for Gatsby. https://astro.build/

Made an advent-style countdown calendar to show off some notable work entering the public domain in 2022. https://publicdomainreview.org/features/entering-the-public-domain/2022/

My Jadeite keycaps have arrived after about 18 months of waiting, finally completing my COVID-extended build of the wireless Keychron K6 I use with my iPad.

[Lovely review] of The Public Domain Review in new issue of the Times Literary Supplement today

All Night Radio was absolutely one of my favorite SXSW live surprises (and records) of the early aughts. Raven Sings the Blues has a nice writeup on the occasion of a small reissue. https://www.ravensingstheblues.com/all-night-radio-spirit-stereo-frequency/

“The Desert Is Paper Thin” by Corntuth is countrified ambient and probably my favorite thing I picked up on the last Bandcamp Friday. Now there’s a crowdfund campaign for a vinyl release. https://corntuth.bandcamp.com/campaign/the-desert-is-paper-thin

Last morning run in the Kempen for the summer before heading back to Ohio for the school year.

One step closer to my dream of a standalone Touch ID button to put next to my Keyboardio Model 01. https://sixcolors.com/link/2021/08/magic-keyboard-with-touch-id-now-available-for-purchase/

Really excited by both the lovely presentation and the contents of Rob Weychert’s Plus Equals algorithmic art zine. https://plusequals.art/

Morning fog on the dunes in Hoge Rielen

Sunday morning long run for 16 miles through the Flemish farmland followed by some Dutch-Tex-Mex smoked mackerel and egg breakfast tacos on homemade tortillas (which I’d intended to photograph, but forgot).