Weeknotes 5: Slender Screws and Large Ants

• A few days in Mexico celebrating our friends’ 10th anniversary. A very nice break from the holiday rush.

• A lot of stuff claims to be "water resistant" now, but I still always assume its just a matter of time after getting anything electronic wet. So when my Sonos Roam made a brief visit to the bottom of a hot tub this weekend, I was ready to say goodbye. But it’s still going strong a few days and charge cycles later. Way to go, IP67 rating!

• Ingress protection codes are a whole journey. The first number is resistance to solids, which usually means dust (though the standard does also describe things like "fingers", "slender screws", and "large ants.") The second number is for liquids, with ratings for everything for drips & splashes up to high-pressure, high-temperature water jets. Thorough.

• Tiny improvement news: look at those fancy ordinals up in the first bullet.

• I still need to look into why link colors are behaving inconsistently on here. I’m not sure how the convention of breaking the browser-default behavior of visited links being a different color came about, but maybe I should just bow out and let the browser do its thing.

• "Let the browser do its thing" is as close to a development philosophy as I have these days. Static sites as much as possible; frameworks like Remix when they’re warranted.