Beauty seared the eyes from Shambal's pocked face
I refuse to believe that this particular entry is for purposes of testing the new layout of Martenblog. I worked on rebuilding it system from scratch during the whole of the flimsy weekend. Why was the weekend flimsy, you ask? Well, my pugnacious starbeam, I felt light, as if I were drifting from one state of consciousness to another. I most likely was. And probably still am.
I began my reconstruction with a new framework dubbed Alkali. The result was a wasted five or six hours fighting with the DOM “template” language and update strategies. Since you won’t read the documentation, I’ll expound a bit. Instead of Redux’s store, which is a moderate step away from hierarchical data-structures that cause my skin to grow seeping warts and boils from sheer frustration, a concept of independent Variables are its core. Like Redux’s store, updates to Variables flow through the system and can dynamically synchronise the DOM. I am fond of this idea, as the Variables are decoupled, unlike Redux’s store.
Unfortunately, the library is in its infancy and five hours of fighting with broken update flow deterred me from continuing. I abandoned Alkali and fell back on the now familiar Redux, to complete the whole of the code in two days or so, sans bugs. Martenblog code. Yeah… it’s still called mb-alkali. Perhaps it remains that way to inspire me to return to the nacient framework in the future.