Weeknotes 24:19

May 30, 2024

Week of May 19–25

Last week was very full so I missed writing a weeknote for the previous week.

• My youngest graduated from high school on Saturday.
• She performed “From the Start” by Laufey at the graduation banquet on Friday night. She did an awesome job and I think Laufey would be proud.
• All my kids were home as my oldest came home for the weekend to see her sister graduate. She also brought her two guinea pigs that she adopted at the beginning of March. It was great to have the whole family together for a few days.
• My dad drove to Chattanooga for the graduation. We enjoyed spending time with him and having him join the celebration.
• I attended her Chattanooga State Community College college orientation with my youngest on Tuesday. I enjoyed seeing more of the campus and being part of this special experience as she looks ahead to the Fall.
• I finished the last post about my trip to Barcelona and Budapest with my son. It took much longer than I would have liked to write the series and it became more challenging to write about the trip as more time passed since I returned home.
• I entered my third month of looking for a new job opportunity. It has been quite a challenge so far.

Articles I read (May 12–25)

• You Are What You Pay Attention To
• The Distortion of Vulnerability
• Life At and After College: An Interview with Abby (Tim Challies)
• My Computing Origin Story (Robb Knight) – I love reading origin stories like this one. Got me thinking about my own computing origin story.
• Max Scherzer and Justin Verlander sound off on how MLB can save the starting pitcher (The Athletic)
• Life Is Far from Certain, But Jesus Is (Randy Alcorn) – This was encouraging as I face uncertainty in my life right now.
• How a handful of independent publishers are doing their thing (Andy Bell)
• Germanity (Jeremy Keith)
• Humble. Honest. Intrusive. Intentional. (Paul David Tripp)
• Does Jesus’ View of Grace Offend You? The Parable of the Laborers in the Vineyard
• Dave Goes Microsoft (Dave Rupert) – Dave’s previous post had been a cliffhanger so I was glad to hear where the story led. Congratulations Dave!
• More Human Than Human (Geoff Graham)
• Caitlin Clark welcomed to WNBA with reality check in Indiana Fever loss (The Athletic)
• Lionel Messi is putting together the greatest individual season in MLS history – this is how (The Athletic) – It has felt like MLS is where a star’s glory fades. I’m glad to see Messi is shining this season.
• The wrong way to do Web Components (Chris Ferdinandi)
• How Good, Kind, Caring People Became The Bad Guys
• We Are the Curators of the Web (Barry Hess)
• Responsibility (Jeremy Keith)
• Manchester City’s wonderful team and the 115 charges – can the two be separated? (The Athletic)
• Baseline progressive enhancement (Jeremy Keith)
• Share Openly (Jon Hicks)
• Labels (Jeremy Keith)
• HTML attributes vs DOM properties (Jake Archibald)
• Huzaar Website Project with Craft 5 CMS Implementation (Veerle Pieters)
• Is your idea worth doing? (Viget)
• Why not sketch? (Tyler Slicka)
• The art of dying
• RSS is Good, Isn’t It?! (Michelle Barker) – I discovered RSS early in my career and have continued to use it even though it did not seem to catch on broadly. I love that the content comes to me in a RSS reader.
• When God Takes His Time (Glenna Marshall)
• Why Designers Aren’t Understood (Smashing Magazine)
• Things I Like: Ham Means One (Robb Knight) – A reflection on Waffle House’s system for “marking” orders.
• All I Want for GAAD (Global Accessibility Awareness Day)
• Kingdom Rush (Chris Coyier)
• Twins reliever Steven Okert tips bullpen cart driver, then gets the win vs. Nationals (The Athletic) – It is just one of the reasons that I love baseball.
• Are You Barely Hanging On?
• The Secret Of Contentment
• Hello, 18F. (Ethan Marcotte) – Ethan writes about his first week at his new job at 18F. Congratulations Ethan.

What I watched (May 12–25)

Is CSS getting harder to learn? (Kevin Powell and Una Kravets)

23 CSS features you should know (and be using) by now (Kevin Powell and Adam Argyle)

A Super Quick History of Hungary (YouTube)

JavaScript var, let, and const explained (Kevin Powell and Chris Ferdinandi)

• White Collar (Netflix)
• Bluey (Disney+) – We are going back and watching select episodes with my youngest.
• Tales of the Empire (Disney+) – We liked the Bariss Offee episodes more than the Morgan Elsbeth.
• Gilmore Girls (Netflix)
• The Great British Baking Show, Collection 5 (Netflix) – I enjoyed seeing Liam compete. I have already seen these shows more than once. But they are always fun to revisit and I forget who won so it is usually still a surprise to me.

Books I am reading

• Demystifying Disability – This was a recommended book for Global Accessibility Awareness Day and I checked it out from my local library.
• Born Again This Way
• Necessary Endings
• Why Everything Matters
• Why Architecture Matters – I bought this one years ago and never finished it. I am going to give it another try.

Walking (May 12–25)

• Wednesday, May 15 (morning) – 3.32 miles in 1 hour and 2 minutes
• Thursday, May 16 (morning) – 3.58 miles in 1 hour and 4 minutes
• Friday, May 17 (afternoon) – 3.87 miles in 1 hour and 13 minutes
• Monday, May 20 (afternoon) – 3.24 miles in 58 minutes
• Tuesday, May 21 (evening) – 3.75 miles in 1 hour and 12 minutes
• Thursday, May 23 (morning) – 3.08 miles in 59 minutes

Games I played

• MLB The Show 23 (Rays) – I have not done well recently and fallen into second place with less than a month left in my season.
• FIFA 23 (Manchester City)