Posts from July 2025

7PM — The Set Design of Sesame Street. A look at how Jane Jacobs, ideas from “The Death and Life of Great American Cities” were incorporated into Sesame Street’s set design in the 1960s and how the set change since (cleaner, brighter, gentrified).

9AM — The Mozilla developer Network turns 20. MDN still is my go to page whenever I need documentation on JavaScript features or browser APIs. So essential that I’d search “JS array reduce MDN” to make sure MDN is the top result.

8AM — “I Drank Every Cocktail”, well, not every cocktail but all cocktails listed by the International Bartenders Association.

About the list, the IBA writes:

The official IBA Cocktail List recognizes the most requested recipes, used over the years by bartenders servicing the most important bars all over the world.

One drink, the Spicy Fifty, proved to be a real headache for Aaronson to complete his quest. A drink so obscure that he had to fly to London to go to a specific bar.

I was able to check off the Spicy Fifty, one of the list’s most perplexing inclusions, by going to creator Salvatore Calabrese’s own Velvet bar at the Corinthia hotel, seemingly the only place in the world where it’s served.

Does the IBA list recognise “the most requested recipes” if you have to fly half way around the world to have a drink in one particular bar? Just a thought, really, I don’t care.

After reading the story, I went out to buy Campari and Vermouth because I felt like a Negroni. A “pedestrian” choice it may be, but I’m a simple man. I like my drink like I like my tech. A bit boring, perhaps, but well-established and has stood the test of time.