I'm Carter.

Who?

Some things I made

• Yazzy, a site to bring reader mode to all the web.
• My personal RSS reader
• Substack-to-epub scraper

Mastodon

Blog posts

• #links #blogging

  [Simon Willison, "My approach to running a link blog", 2024-12-22](https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/22/link-blog/) Going to try this out. > The point of that article was to emphasize that blogging doesn’t have to be about unique insights. The value is in writing frequently and having something to show for it over time—worthwhile even if you don’t attract much of an audience (or any audience at all). > > In that article I proposed two categories of content that are low stakes and high value: **things I learned** and **descriptions of my projects**. > > I realize now that link blogging deserves to be included … 153 words

• The 2025 theme

  #web-dev

  I find that the urge to change the design of my site happens pretty frequently. That's probably a good thing—sense and fashion change. The biggest issue (maybe) is infrastructure. The 2024 version of this site was built on [Tailwind](https://tailwindcss.com/). However, I've always been enamored with the [CSS Zen Garden](https://www.csszengarden.com/)—it has the ability to change the design of a site without changing the HTML.  But Tailwind doesn't make it easy to rip the CSS out of the HTML. It's all "component separation" and "utility classes" instead of the "styling" vs "content" separation of the Zen … 230 words

• 2024 in reviews

  #review

  # In and Out - 📤 Out - Polyester - Viewing myself as a burden. - Doing things out of a sense of obligation instead of utility and joy - Cupcakes. They just aren't good. Brownies are better. - Trying to smoke meat on a charcoal grill - 📥 In - Things made of wool, wood, and leather - Viewing myself as a benefit - Writing - Fit pics 📸 - Hats - Books outside of sci-fi and fantasy - Caspar David Friedrich. His works satisfy my desire for "little guy next to big things", landscapes, and fog. - Never … 373 words

• Cash and I are taking a break.

  #finances

  Recently, I've been working on moving my family's banking strategy from traditional checking and savings account to money market funds in a (Fidelity) cash management account. The migration has started, but I'm pretty happy with what I think will be the result. **Please note:** I am not a financial advisor. I am not a finance professional. I should not be in charge of your money. I don't even want to be in charge of my own money, but I'm the most inexpensive guy I know. This is not advice—just a record of a decision I have made and some background … 1,077 words

• Context isn't just for LLMs

  #links #git #llms

  [Matt Pocock shares "one weird git thing for local development"](https://x.com/mattpocockuk/status/1941907646161777072) > The one weird thing I always put in my .gitignore: > > \*.local.\* > > Makes it super simple to create temporary local scripts (fix-names.local.js) > > Or save outputs as json (output.local.json) > > Started doing this so many years ago but I guess I only just remembered no-one else does it. At work, I recently attended a training on Cursor background agents hosted by Anysphere employees. In the demonstration, [Nick Miller](https://x.com/nickwm?lang=en) created a local directory and filled it with context—mockups, an implementation plan, a TODO list—anything relevant … 413 words