# links floating arount today [Personal Websites](id:1d43e9ca-7ac8-415f-92f8-f6abf170e011) - showcases skills like a BIOS screen. Incredible! Would love to do client work like this in the future - just need a better portfolio… I'm very much split between temporary, "superficial" front-env development work like this and substantive, infrastructural work on personal information management and how we use our computers from the bottom up. I need to put more time in to be able to continue to do both, but I'm not sure if I'll ever have time… # catern [¯\\(ツ)\_/¯](https://archive.is/ejB22) brilliant user with interest in programming language, small types, using simple tools and doing things unix-first. there are so many OS capabilities we just don't use on our systems - why use them? Has lots of great writing on deliberately keeping things simple and monolithic - because that's sane more of the time - though distributed systems work is equally as valuable; just not as useful as it's considered.