---
title: "Weeknotes for 2024W23"
slug: weeknotes-2024w23
date: 2024-06-09T12:00:00-07:00
categories: weeknotes
tags: [Pride, TV, Sports, Programming, JavaScript, Swift, "Video Games",
Blender, Design, Web]
---

## Happy Pride!

I forgot to mention this last week, my first weeknotes post of June. It's Pride
month. I'm grateful to live in a time and place where it's safe to be and
celebrate who I am as a lesbian and a trans person.

:rainbow_flag:

## Watching

Tess and I started watching [Hacks][hacks] on Max this week. We were a little
apprehensive at first, but it's excellent.

I caught some good Phoenix Mercury and Bay FC games this week. Bay FC had a
great win against Chicago in Wrigley Field. My adult life continues to have way
more sports in it than my teen and early-20s self imagined it would.

## Doing

I've been messing with Blender a lot more this week. Modeling is hard! I've
tried several times to model one of my coffee mugs, and have spent way too much
time trying to get it looking good.

I've also been thinking a lot about a website redesign. I've been reading about
building flexible, resilient, and easy to modify CSS; learning about design
systems and how to think about typography and spacing on the web; and writing
some test pages to try out concepts I've learned.

## Links

Someone [retooted][quine-toot] a JavaScript quine clock, [Qlock][qlock], into my
timeline on Tuesday. Quines are fascinating programming toys: they are programs
that produce themselves as output. This one cleverly renders itself as a digital
clock.

Cyan dropped the [launch trailer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN1TQm942_U)
of their Riven remake early this week and it looks _excellent_. The first time I
played Riven, I was around 10 years old and I'd gotten a free copy of it bundled
with something or other. It came on DVD! I was a little young then to appreciate
the full depth of the game, and found the puzzles extremely difficult. I'm
looking forward to playing through with better, adult-sized problem solving
skills.

[The Purpose of a System is What it Does][purpose] by Anil Dash.

[Swift at 10][swift10] by Michael Tsai is a good look at where Swift is after
ten years. (Hard to believe it's been ten years.)

[hacks]: https://www.max.com/shows/hacks-2021/67e940b7-aab2-46ce-a62b-c7308cde9de7
[quine-toot]: https://xoxo.zone/@andybaio/112558775736219190
[qlock]: https://aem1k.com/qlock/
[purpose]: https://www.anildash.com//2024/05/29/systems-the-purpose-of-a-system/
[swift10]: https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/06/04/swift-at-10/
