And a follow up from today is the two-inch long fuzzy insect of indeterminate species that crawled right in front of me on my exercise mat (same basement) as I was doing push-ups this morning.

Yikes. That would be pretty surprising here, I think.

In Other Lands by @sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social is one of my favorites. It’s a beautiful coming of age story with great characters, a fun fantasy world and a perfect mix of snark and heart.

Thanks!

Thanks, I guess really I'm wondering why it never had a _popular_ framework, poor wording on my part. Because I was a web dev at the time and looking for new stuff and I have no memory of Catalyst at all.

Hmm... and this, also from 2007, when I was still writing both Python and Ruby a lot:

noelrappin.com/blog/2007/06...

I stand by it, but I did eventually figure out Ruby's module mechanism, so that's not a negative any more.