Likes from 12 January 2026

The best blog post left unpublished doesn't help anyone. Well, maybe it helps the author clarify their ideas. Execution is (almost) the whole game. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Sometimes I wish I had fewer ideas. Execution of an idea is way more important than the quantity of ideas you have; and as someone who struggles with executive function, I get sad when I look at my unmerged branches on my blog.

Yes, I know the cliché that bloggers are always blogging about blogging! I like semantics. It tickles that part of my delicious meaty brain that longs for structure. Semantics are good for computers and humans. Computers can easily understand the structure of the data, humans can use tools like screen-readers to extract the data they're interested in. In HTML, there are three main ways to …