diff --git a/content/blog/2024/weeknotes-2024w23.md b/content/blog/2024/weeknotes-2024w23.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1225111 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/2024/weeknotes-2024w23.md @@ -0,0 +1,65 @@ +--- +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. + +June is also when {{< tess >}} and I met, at the Pride parade no less, and I'm +grateful for her and the life we continue to build together. + +: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] 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/