ALAN LAVENDER @lavenderlens@qoto.org

Life imitating art. Imitating life…
https://www.ladbible.com/entertainment/black-mirror-season-6-joan-awful-billboards-987798-20230622

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt8740898/

Just had the great pleasure of viewing #Netflix’ The Space Between (2021, dir: Rachel Winter). I could go on about the 90s music business, of which I was a bit player myself, or of using Kelsey Grammer’s booming voice and ivory-tinkling abilities to the full in a highly effective collab with Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo, or the fact that the real daughter of a real life 90s and all time hall of fame pop icon wonderfully underplayed a wannabe climbing the greasy A&R pole with a character arc spiralling sharply downwards, in counterpoint to the rock star’s daughter, the eponymous Julia, who finally achieves emancipation from her past, but no. I won’t talk about any of that🤪 I’ll just say that in the age of multi-episode multi-season shows all vying for that elusive next series, this conventional hour and a half movie had characters, dialogue, and ensemble performances good enough to make me shed a tear, then, as the characters finally did, move on. Watch this.

#TailwindCSS with #React just got better behind my back. #Flowbite is a component library with all of the basic functionality of react-bootstrap for free (tiered pricing). Happy prototyping, dev friends!
https://flowbite.com/

@rachelnabors CSS: Grid, variables, animations/transitions. Maybe Tailwind too, it’s not core but sure is a time-saver. Browser: localStorage, geolocation perhaps?

So create-react-app is no longer maintained. React-router has changed all its methods. And RTK is preferred over Redux. They say things come in threes. Am I missing anything?

Still, this would have been impossible working in London.

But it’s surprising how little time is left to get down the beach after coding.

We’re lucky, living a ten minute drive from a 5 mile long Atlantic beach.

Finally got out with Cujo for a bit of R&R after #JS.

Yes. I’m reading. A book. Good start to the day. 🌞

And for my friends in Canada & the US, it’s not *that* Letterkenny. It’s the real one, County Donegal! ✅☘️

Yikes!! SCORCHIO!!

Those secret service types, men in black, earning their keep for once…

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