Weeknotes 26:04

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Week of January 18–24

Grid lanes in Brave

I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that I played around with grid lanes in my memory keeper personal project. At that point the only browser that I could see the different layout in was Safari Technology Preview. I was surprised on Wednesday when I updated Brave. I saw the grid lanes layout when viewing my personal project. I had thought that Brave had implemented the support for grid lanes for everyone. It wasn’t until I was viewing it on my personal computer, that I realized I must have enabled something behind a flag on my work computer. I had CSS Masonry Layout is enabled in Experiments in Brave. So not everyone can see it but it was cool to find out that another browser has it available to play around with. I have the same setting enabled in Chrome but they had not implemented grid lanes behind the flag as of Sunday.

Remembering Robert

As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, Robert Wolgemuth, the husband of the founder for Revive Our Hearts Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, died a few weeks ago after a brief but intense battle with complications from pneumonia. His memorial service was on Friday and Revive Our Hearts streamed the service. I spent time last week make some changes to Robert’s page on the site, updating tributes, removing some content, and adding new content in preparation for the livestream.

I got to spend a brief amount of time with Robert at their house last April. I met him before Nancy did a recording session for The Wonder of the Word. Afterwards, he gave us a brief tour of their house before we left to go back to the office. I enjoyed his presence on Zoom calls and hearing from him once in our chapel service. I spent the last two weeks getting to know him better through his book, Gun Lap. The more I read from Robert and read and hear other people share about Robert, the more impressed I am with how he lived his life. His memorial service was a strong testimony and challenge to live one’s life well for Christ.

I wish I had gotten the chance to know Robert more. But I am grateful for the brief interactions and for the books of his that I have read that have allowed me to know him better (I recently read, You Can Trust God to Write Your Story, which he co-authored with Nancy).

I read a couple of tributes from Christian authors I have a lot of respect for:

Work notes

  • I worked on a lot of maintenance and improvement tasks. I made some updates to the Read Through the Bible pages and email template. They are waiting on some other tasks to be implemented on the site.
  • I built a simple page for Psalms from the Heart where Nancy reads select Psalms underscored by soft piano music.
  • As I mentioned, I made several edits to Robert’s page. I also made changes in the CMS on Friday during the memorial service to post the livestream embed and then enable another livestream embed for the second part of the service of hymns and tributes. I watched the services on my Samsung TV through its web browser.

Articles I read

What I watched

Caught my eye

Layout toggle with Web Component Cards on Codepen – Toggle between Multi-column, Flexbox, CSS Grid, Masonry (Grid Lanes) layout

Books I am reading

Walking

Dipping temperatures and winter weather at the end of the week kept me from getting out as much as I would have liked. I would like to walk 3-4 times a week to get in 9-12 miles a week.

  • Monday – 2.97 miles in 54 minutes

What I played

  • MLB The Show 20 (Twins) – I won three games against the Rays to win the ALCS 4 games to 1. Game 4 was close and I came from behind to snatch the victory. The game was reminding me of Game 2 that I lost but I kept my composure better and took advantage of some key opportunities. I won the first game of the World Series against the Cubs, 7-1. Jose Berrios gave me 7 innings, only giving up homer after I had quite a lead.
  • NBA 2K25 (Nuggets) – I won both the games I played this week. I am currently on a 15 game winning streak with just 3 games left in the regular season. Right now, I have the top spot in the Western Conference.

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