2026-01-08

• 🤔 Discord Feels Better than GitHub Issues for me but won't work long-term (i sense). Is there a way to get the best of both worlds? : I'm noticing that day to day software product work an informal, fast, visually rich spaces like Discord forum channel works much better for me than issue tracker like GitHub Issues – but it doesn't seem sustainable long-term. How could i get the best of both worlds …
  • https://chatgpt.com/c/695f1fef-bc94-8332-8165-8f8486ecbde8?ref=mini
• 🚀 Booted up AI, Tried Today mini project as a place to post my experiences and learning with AI
• Designing websites for Life Itself and Life Itself research

Papertrail

• Giovanni Arrighi - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Arrighi - colleague and collaborator of Immanuel Wallerstein and a Braudel-ian. Major work is trilogy beginning with The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power, and the Origins of Our Times. Nice memoir-ish piece https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii56/articles/giovanni-arrighi-the-winding-paths-of-capital

Hayao Miyazaki on the future of Studio Ghibli

Very zen.

https://x.com/PhotoGhibli/status/2008464013458334177