The Experimental Parent | Psychology Today (toot) I saw this snippet in a 2016 interview in Psychology Today with T. Berry Brazelton:

“BB: I've just finished writing a book, The Final Touchpoint I'd like to get that out there. There are better and worse ways to handle our aging, our denial of it, our acceptance, and—as Erik Erikson put it—our being generative, to produce as much as we can while we can. I'm 98 but I'm still trying to be generative.”

He died two years after the interview and I don't think The Final Touchpoint has been published, but it might be interesting to find similar books.

Memexes, mountain lakes, and the serendipity of old ideas (Interconnected) (toot) Hmm, an On This Day RSS feed might be worth writing a tiny script that I can add to a crontab.

“Naturally there's an On This Day web feed too so these posts appear in my newsreader each morning. Some personal serendipity to start the day.”

Oh Hello Ana - In defense of unpolished personal websites: (toot) On the value of legible source code for websites, especially personal ones:

“Today's heavily optimized websites have largely killed the "view source" learning experience. The code is minified, bundled, and often incomprehensible to beginners trying to understand how things work.
I got the ick from my own small optimisation. My personal website is small and it isn't an urgent service. It's hardly ever visited from a mobile phone. Maybe I shouldn't be using the little time I have to focus on that side of front-end development in this instance?
But deep down, all I want for my personal website is to give back to the web. I want anyone, regardless of skill level, to inspect elements, understand the structure, and learn from readable code. And I am fully aware my code isn't perfect. It's old and there's a lot of room for improvement.”

Found via Favourites of March 2025 | Brain Baking