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To be fair to me, we didn't go all that way _for_ Rushmore, that just happened to be the first place we stopped to see.
lol but still
“This place sucks.”
— My 9y/o after driving 14 hours to get to Mount Rushmore.
Me to my kids as they go off to college:
“Here is my going away gift. When you were born, I didn’t setup an investment account for you. But I did snag you a Gmail account. Here are some pristine usernames you could’ve only got 20 years ago!”
> Speed is how you avoid reckoning. It guarantees you miss things, and you can’t learn from what you don’t notice.
A blog post full of wisdom, by @jimniels
https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/speed-not-conducive-to-wisdom/
This two year old fantastic blog post by @jimniels on the craft of software development and the parallels of iterating over a UI and sanding a woodwork popped onto my radar this week and I want you to see it too.
https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2024/sanding-ui/
It's my June 13th entry to #Junited2026, see all at https://notes.hamatti.org/writing/events/junited-2026#june-13th
📝 Rather than judging by some number, I’d say if you can do something with consistency, discipline, and perseverance, I’d say you’re good at it (without even seeing the result).
Typo of the day:
Type of the day
Apple have removed the overuse of icons from the menu's in macOS Golden Gate, hell yeah 🥳
[doing things I’m bad at]
“ugh, I suck at everything”
[doing things I’m good at]
“this doesn’t count because it’s easy for me”
Matthias Zöchling
Juhis
Dan Counsell
ADHD Jesse