Does farting make you lighter? Good question. 🤓
This evening, i was forced to watch The Idea of You. At the beginning of the movie, before Solène enters Hayes’ trailer, I wrote this:
She’s gonna date a Moon. Then the age difference is going to be a problem. So they split up. But then they’re getting back together because love is the most important.
Bingo.
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Thoughts about the state of web tooling
I spent some time yesterday evening with a starter template of Remix + Vite. Here are a few thoughts:
- I couldn’t figure out how to import CSS. The Remix documentation referred to Vite’s, which was technology-agnostic and suggested that importing CSS should be straightforward. However, my attempts failed. When simple tasks become difficult, I understand the strange popularity of Tailwind.
- Vercel has its own package to run Remix, leading Remix to remove their Vercel starter template from their repository. From an outside perspective, it seems ego battles are harming the developer experience.
- Sass seems to be considered outdated compared to all the PostCSS options.
I still believe the web is moving towards some consolidation among tools, but it’s very frustrating right now. 💻
I thought Ted Lasso’s look was influenced by Ned Flanders. Since this morning, I now think it is influenced by David Seaman. ⚽️
Watching Blur’s Radio 2 concert on BBC from last July. Graham Coxon’s GC-3 guitar looks amazing. 🎵
I sometimes work from Hibou Grand Duc and today was a treat. They played old school 70s and 80s rock’n’roll including Supertramp, Dire Straits and Creedence Clearwater Revival. 🎵
Ce week-end, baisser de rideau de la Ligue 1, de la Premier League et de la Bundesliga. Beaucoup de choses à jouer pour se maintenir, se donner l’occasion de visiter l’Europe, ou mettre ses mains sur le trophée de Premier League. Tandis que déjà, au loin, Didier Deschamps prépare la prochaine page des compétitions de football en reprenant les Rolling Stones : “N’G, I still love you baby, everywhere I look I see your eyes”.
#266 ⚽️
L’étape, l’étape, oui mais c’est Pantani.
Vincent Delerm raconte que son père, Philippe, avait appelé L’Équipe pour proposer ce titre lors d’une victoire d’étape de Marco Pantani au Tour de France. 🍿
Every announcement of a new album by Nada Surf is joy.
Moon Mirror is out September 13th. Watch In Front of Me Now
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Finished reading: The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe. Insanely rich. I read it English, which is not my native language, and it took me 7 months to complete it. 📚
Pour clôre le sujet PSG - Dortmund, extrait de DM échangés hier au sujet d’Ousmane Dembélé :
— Comment tu peux avoir une technique de dribble aussi folle et faire autant de centres ratés ? — Le dribble, c’est l’enfance qui n’est jamais partie. Le centre, c’est l’adulte qui n’est jamais venu.
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Sans flamme (une)
L’histoire retiendra que les poteaux étaient ronds mais que certains pieds étaient carrés. (Duluc)
Un hamburger froid avec des frites molles ! (Edouard Cissé)
PSG - Dortmund était un match insipide, sans âme, ni joie, ni grand chose d’autre. Au moins la lecture de L’Équipe redonne le sourire. ⚽️
Too many menu bar apps. They do not thrive with the MacBook Pro notch. We still need windows. 💻
Bravo au Paris SG qui remporte son 12e titre de champion de France. À Liverpool, on dit adieu au titre, et il paraît qu’après l’ère Klopp, ce ne sera pas l’ère Vapoteuse, mais l’ère Slot, un autre genre de vice.
#261 ⚽️
NJ/NY Gotham FC is such a cool team name, with such a cool logo. ⚽️
Asteroid City, 2023 - ★★★
Wes Anderson’s “Asteroid City”’s rhythm is frenetic, and it's hard to find time to breathe. I had heard that it was a bit over the top, even for Wes Anderson fans, and it is indeed true. However, the lighting is spectacular, and I think the images will stay forever in the minds of those who see it.
The film addresses loneliness, being an outcast, and how different scales of life impact each other: from personal to communal, national, or even cosmic levels. Individuals have little control over threats like nuclear war, quarantines, or UFO interventions, or even over how to grieve, both individually and collectively. It emphasizes that everyone has a role to play at every level, encapsulated in the final mantra, "You can't wake up if you don't fall asleep." This suggests that being perpetually active and busy might prevent us from seeing the bigger picture of our intentions with our lives or the impact we can have on challenging the absurdities of our Western governments.
Wes Anderson's usual magic lies in his movies being so rich in details that they offer a new experience with each viewing. They create a framework where your attention can explore different details each time. "Asteroid City" seems to be no exception, and I look forward to watching it again.