I've been tinkering with web components again recently and it has been a great experience. I think the biggest challenge has actually been breaking the prop-heavy React / Vue / Whatever framework mindset on how pages and components should be composed and populated. Of all the knock-on effects that JS frameworks have had, turns out that deeply messing with my two-decade-long mental model of server-side data flow is the most egregious

PSA to go watch Robot Dreams. It's ace - beautifully animated and a surprisingly deep story about companionship and loneliness with almost no dialogue

Today my partner and I drove to a country pub just outside of town for a Sunday roast. I haven't been there for years and it turned out to be much better than I remembered. After we got home we decided to go for a walk in the rain and ended up going up through a beautiful old forest, over the hills and back to the pub for another pint. Perfect Sunday.