I don't generally give a shit about the weather - it is what it is.
But this fucking rain... it's unbelievably, depressingly endless.. š
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Mike Ellis
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Beardy web strategy museumy chin-stroker, lefty, father, muso,husband, once-author. Director of https://thirty8.co.uk. Co-founder of https://themuseumplatform.com. Dabbler in https://variousbits.net. Life mostly based on a true story.
The thing about the Etudes is that on one level theyāre literally that - studies. Each one does something insane, practicing a little manoeuvre or technique - so thereās a sort of āHanonā feel to them, as in āoh, this one is about practicing my left hand octavesā or whatever - but on another level there is obviously much, much more. Just the most beautiful set of pieces.
Heās also lauded for Beethoven Sonatas. For me though, thatās Brendel territory. I should listen to Polliniās Beethoven but Iām not sure I can escape Brendelās orbit. Pollini is Chopin though. That guy. Wowzers.
And: if you play the piano at a reasonable level, youāll likely have been down the path of feeling quite pleased with yourself for having nailed a couple of Etudes, and then you put Pollini on and realise that youāre not even close to the beginning of the very bottom of the foothills of the mountain that this manās genius represents
RIP Pollini. Listening to his (imo) masterwork, the greatest of all Chopin: Op 10 & 25 Etudes, and the greatest of recordings.
Look at him, what a fucking badass
I know thereās an argument for Starmer being cautious in order to grab middle ground / faltering erstwhile Tory votes.
But. I just wish Labour had the balls to go all out left. As in - yes, weāll reverse the clusterfuck that is Brexit and seek EU membership again; yes, weāll raise taxes and as a result weāll invest widely in public services for the bigger good; yes, weāll be massive on the green agenda because to be otherwise is batshitā¦
Instead, itās all a bit floppy armed and meh.
āIs making websites hard, or do we make it hardā by @jimniels - https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2024/hard-websites/
Lots of web devs could do with learning the principles of progressive enhancement IMO. Make simple things that work well at the base level, build up from there.
Also - devs thinking too hard about the tools they use to build when their audiences almost always donāt care is maybe THE perennial web dev problem
Fuck me the sun makes a difference
Probably get cancelled for saying it but fuck me Coleman Hughes talks a massive amount of common sense. Nodding along pretty hard to the latest Making Sense.
āUK Court Ruling Has Potential To Free Up The Public Domain; But Museums Might Still Block Itā
