Weeknotes for 2024w23

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+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/