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title: "Weeknotes for 2024W23"
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slug: weeknotes-2024w23
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date: 2024-06-09T12:00:00-07:00
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categories: weeknotes
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tags: [Pride, TV, Sports, Programming, JavaScript, Swift, "Video Games",
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Blender, Design, Web]
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## Happy Pride!
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I forgot to mention this last week, my first weeknotes post of June. It's Pride
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month. I'm grateful to live in a time and place where it's safe to be and
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celebrate who I am as a lesbian and a trans person.
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:rainbow_flag:
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## Watching
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Tess and I started watching [Hacks][hacks] on Max this week. We were a little
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apprehensive at first, but it's excellent.
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I caught some good Phoenix Mercury and Bay FC games this week. Bay FC had a
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great win against Chicago in Wrigley Field. My adult life continues to have way
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more sports in it than my teen and early-20s self imagined it would.
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## Doing
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I've been messing with Blender a lot more this week. Modeling is hard! I've
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tried several times to model one of my coffee mugs, and have spent way too much
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time trying to get it looking good.
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I've also been thinking a lot about a website redesign. I've been reading about
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building flexible, resilient, and easy to modify CSS; learning about design
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systems and how to think about typography and spacing on the web; and writing
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some test pages to try out concepts I've learned.
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## Links
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Someone [retooted][quine-toot] a JavaScript quine clock, [Qlock][qlock], into my
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timeline on Tuesday. Quines are fascinating programming toys: they are programs
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that produce themselves as output. This one cleverly renders itself as a digital
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clock.
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Cyan dropped the [launch trailer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN1TQm942_U)
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of their Riven remake early this week and it looks _excellent_. The first time I
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played Riven, I was around 10 years old and I'd gotten a free copy of it bundled
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with something or other. It came on DVD! I was a little young then to appreciate
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the full depth of the game, and found the puzzles extremely difficult. I'm
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looking forward to playing through with better, adult-sized problem solving
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skills.
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[The Purpose of a System is What it Does][purpose] by Anil Dash.
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[Swift at 10][swift10] by Michael Tsai is a good look at where Swift is after
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ten years. (Hard to believe it's been ten years.)
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[hacks]: https://www.max.com/shows/hacks-2021/67e940b7-aab2-46ce-a62b-c7308cde9de7
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[quine-toot]: https://xoxo.zone/@andybaio/112558775736219190
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[qlock]: https://aem1k.com/qlock/
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[purpose]: https://www.anildash.com//2024/05/29/systems-the-purpose-of-a-system/
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[swift10]: https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/06/04/swift-at-10/
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