Another fantastic piece of Beatles content. It's not new but the remaster looks lovely. Was a great watch to pass time on the plane.

I've seen this pattern repeat itself countless times: teams build a SPA, struggle with initial load performance, then swing completely to SSR with progressive enhancement. They throw out the SPA architecture because they think it's fundamentally at odds with performance. But the real issue isn't the architecture—it's that we're not leveraging what the browser already gives us.

When you server-render HTML, the browser starts parsing it immediately. During that parse, it discovers resources it needs: stylesheets, scripts, images. The browser is already doing parallel loading—that's its default behavior. The problem is we're not telling it about our data dependencies early enough.

The fetch call in your JavaScript might complete instantly because the response is already cached. You get the benefits of SSR (fast HTML delivery, progressive enhancement) with the benefits of a SPA (fast client-side hydration).

Some really nice clear explanation of why using <link rel="preload"> is so useful.

Funny little "make fun of AI" site.

This has to go down as one of the weirdest Test matches of all time. I honestly don't know what to make of it going in to the Brisbane night test. England's bowlers are good but their batters are trash? Maybe? Australia are also really bad at batting apart from Travis Head?

Test, Odi, T20,IPL,Pressure match,ICC Finals...Travis Head is absolutely beast!!!

I've used Zed for around a month now as my sole text editor and I'm enjoying it.

I like its speed and simplicity. The team is actively rolling out updates and it's super simple to just setup and start coding.

There's two things I currently miss from VSCode (one of which I think is getting fixed soon):

• Pretty TypeScript Errors is one of the best extensions in the VSCode marketplace, I think this kind of TypeScript error view will soon be natively supported in Zed and it seems like it'll be in the next stable release
• Jest Runner is such a convenient way to run tests, I hate having to memorise the command line args for jest and prefer to have my tests run directly in my editor so I don't need to switch windows

Was awesome having my brother come visit us in Bali this week. We did a lot of surfing. Was really nice to feel a bit more confident on the board and be out there in some bigger waves. I still suck at surfing but its definitely lit a bit of a fire in me to have more of a crack at it when we get home.

My current problem is that I get too stiff with my upper body when I stand up on the board. I need to stay low and put more pressure on my front foot when I stand. That will help me wipe out less as I was often falling off the back.

My new favourite spot to surf in the world is Balangan Beach.

I already posted this a little while back but here are a couple more settings.

• Shift > Option > Command > 0 to open a new window with my personal profile, Shift > Option > Command > 1 to open a new window with my work profile
• I'm now using wBlock for ad blocking, it seems solid so far

Well this is a terrifying watch. I think we might be in trouble here.

Khawaja needs to go. Boland also had a mare.

Some of these goals were absolute worldies. Loved the Scottish commentary too.

There would have been a lot of hangovers the next morning.

Nintendo what have you done.

No one should ever say "BOOYAH!" in a Metroid game. Sigh. What the hell were they thinking?

Hearing the beautiful music interrupted by Marvel millennium yapping is insane. Nintendo really fumbled this one

The more I look at Old Hemp the more I think it's actually Boots' ancestor.

First following sheep at the age of six weeks, Hemp grew to have a great ability to herd. He moved sheep quietly unlike the louder sheepdogs of the era and was far more mild-mannered, although sometimes worked so intensely that he physically trembled; within a few generations, his style had been adopted by almost all Border Collies, and became known as the Border Collie style.

We've done a lot this week. Photo highlights include Nyang Nyang Beach, Uluwatu Temple, Puppy Yoga and Sundays Beach Club.

Personally, probably the best thing about the lazygit is its UX, notably how easy it is to use this tool, with just a basic understanding of the git CLI. Generally, it seems that a nice user experience is achieved due to deliberate choice of strong consistency, deliberate visualizations and interactive menus. Let me explain.

Yes to all of this.

At work this week I've been upgrading a very out of date React Native app. I'm upgrading from 74.5 to 79.6 along with all the Expo changes. It's been a painful upgrade where I've mostly been relying on ChatGPT to get through various bugs and issues.

I had this thought when getting very frustrated with the upgrade:

primitives are so much easier to deal with using AI, anything that is a bit more high level like React Native gets so annoying to debug

To me, React Native and Expo really has so much magic to it and it makes deep diving into the actual issue difficult. ChatGPT has helped a bit but its been a real grind to get the answers I need.

I'm keen to give Pokémon Lazurus a go. The art style is beautiful and I've heard good things about this developer and their previous work.

These are some really intriguing products. The killer thing that Valve have done is on the software side with SteamOS and Proton.

A couple more photos from Uluwatu.

I really enjoyed Padang Padang. It's a gorgeous beach.

Somewhat interesting side note about all the beaches around here: none of them are free. You usually need to pay around 20,000 per person (~$2 AUD). Obviously this is nothing in terms of cost but it's something that differs to the Canggu beaches.

The AFL will introduce a wildcard round in 2026, giving teams that finish as low as 10th on the ladder after the home-and-away season a chance to win the flag.

The wildcard round would mean the team that finishes seventh on the ladder in the home-and-away season would play the team that finished 10th, and the team that finished eighth would play the ninth-placed team.

It would add intrigue to where clubs finish inside the top eight, too, as the top six would be rewarded with the week’s break, while teams finishing seventh and eighth would earn a hosting rights in the wildcard round.

The winners would then advance to play elimination finals under the same final eight system as has been in place since 2000.

Why do we need this? I really don't think this is a good idea.

I guess it's nice that there's no longer that weird week break anymore between regular season and finals. Channel 7 will be happy.

You'd think this eliminates any hopes for a Bulldogs like run in 2016 again if you have to play a whole extra finals game.

This game can't come out soon enough. December 4th come at me.

I've been watching a bunch of old Ashes footage this week from the early 2000s.

There really is so much nostalgia: channel 9, the commentary, the scorebug and graphics. It reminds me of being on summer holidays in Inverloch.

The players too - this Australian team was just completely dominate. Australia A might have beaten this English team.

I then watched the documentary from the 2005 Ashes and it was a reminder of how fantastic that series was.