DEV LOG: The Grustle Mindset
Kingdom Hearts Portfolio
The Kingdom Hearts Portfolio is finished!
Final Thoughts on this project:
Dearly Beloved is a beautiful song (but perhaps that’s the nostalgia talking)
CSS is much more tolerable when absolute is used and caution is thrown to the wind
The best way to blur the edges of an image is to turn it into a div. Go figure.
Other News
This is a great blog post, specifically:
Every system eventually sucks, get over it
Bjarne Stroustrup has a quote that goes “There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses”.This can be extended to large systems as well.
There is no “right” architecture, you’ll never pay down all of your technical debt, you’ll never design the perfect interface, your tests will always be too slow.
This isn’t an excuse to never make things better, but instead a way to give you perspective. Worry less about elegance and perfection; instead strive for continuous improvement and creating a livable system that your team enjoys working in and sustainably delivers value.
Piet Mondrian (a very popular inspiration for generative artists everywhere) was a follower of the Theosophy movement that swept the United States in the late 19th century
…After Darwin had given the world his theory of evolution, it took a lot of faith still to believe that the world had been created in six days.
Nietszche had decided that God didn't exist after all, and Freud was conferring enormous powers on the id and the ego. These revelations, coupled with revolutionary breakthroughs in science and technology, produced a crisis in conventional belief systems.
The Christian church saw congregations shrinking as people looked elsewhere for answers to the new and totally absorbing set of questions that the modern age posed.
Summing up this atmosphere of doubt and expectation, the artist Wassily Kandinsky later wrote, 'Suddenly thick walls crumbled. Everything was soft, uncertain, vacillating. It would not have astonished me to see a stone melt in the air and evaporate.'
Of course, Peach has a hamster wheel, and she devotes hours each day to the pointless task of turning it.
Perhaps there is a pleasure in the exertion, or the absurdity of it.
Perhaps it’s instinct, and she doesn’t quite know why she runs, other than that she must.
Peach is a portrait of modern man.
ars longa, vita brevis
Bram