Weeknotes 26:09

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Week of February 22–28

• I continued working on the Mujer Verdadera ’26 website. My team leader and I met with the team on Wednesday to show the progress. I got very positive response from them and they appreciated that I picked up several important points from the style guide they had provided. They liked the bright colors. We are still gathering feedback on the homepage. I began working on secondary pages at the end of the week as I set a design direction based off the homepage design.
• I also continued putting the finishing touches on the new Wonder of the Word page. We launched the revision on Thursday afternoon.

• I updated a Kindness Challenge, reordering some of the content and making a few content updates to freshen up this challenge that we are promoting.
• I continued working on some small tasks as we move the site for our South Africa ministry from WordPress to Django.
• I fixed a layout issue in our daily Read Through the Bible email. The Bible chapter titles were too long on smaller screens so I adjusted the font size. I also tested it with the longest one word title to make sure it does not break in the future.
• I came up with a UX solution where users can go directly to a page to donate online or choose a dropdown of options related to donations. The solution should be implemented later this week.

Articles I read

• Training your replacement (Chris Ferdinandi)
• Do You Board First or Last? (Tim Challies)
• Rebelling against efficiency (Declan Chidlow)
• Studio Notes #72 (Dan Cederholm)
• The Most Quotable Quote (Tim Challies)
• “To the greater glory of god” (Joe Crawford)
• Smaller and dumber (Dave Rupert)
• Priority of idle hands (Dave Rupert)
• WOCA: My second time showing (Joe Crawford)
• A 2026 Piccalilli homepage redesign (Piccalilli)
• Watching my daughter work so hard inspires me to work that much harder (Geoff Graham)
• Is the gospel an ideal? (Michael Jensen)
• Pens, sleeves, and whiteboards (James)
• Sam Altman Fumes That It Takes Longer to Train a Human Than an AI, Plus They Eat All That Wasteful Food (Futurism)
• You Get Good At What You Do (Or Do You?) (Chris Coyier)
• Sober-Minded in an Age of Outrage (David Prince) – I reread this article that I had come across mid-January. After having conversations with my son and oldest daughter last weekend, I needed to revisit this article on Monday morning.
• Playing God, Becoming Nothing (Carl R. Trueman)
• The Canal (Jonathan Snook)
• Breakpoints (Matthias Zöchling) – It always helps to get a new perspective on things.
• Breaking points (Matthias Zöchling)
• Why light-weight websites may one day save your life (Marijke Luttekes) – I skimmed this one.
• Poisoning AI Training Data (Bruce Schneier)
• A nice day (Jeremy Keith)
• I made sho!io. Share what you’re working on without the social noise (Andy Clarke)
• What 18F means to me (Angélique Weger) – I just came across Angélique’s site this week and read this one from a year ago.
• We’ll Be Learning More about God for All Eternity (Randy Alcorn)
• Human-AI interactions stimulate coordination between co-workers and improve team performance, study finds (KU News) – I am not sure I am sold on this. I have not observed this in my work.
• Random Thoughts and Tips on Prayer (Tim Challies)
• Is Claude My Friend? (Brad Littlejohn)
• How Is AI Shaping You? Three Principles for Wise Use (Samuel James, Desiring God)
• Studio Notes #73 (Dan Cederholm)
• Save the Fox, Kill the Fetus (Carl R. Trueman)
• The Silent Killer: Comfort (Dustin Burdin, For The Church)
• Intersecting Interests  (Joe Crawford)

What I watched

• Unwinding & heading home – Making a Frontend Masters workshop – Day 4 (General Musings with Kevin Powell)
• cqi to the rescue (Kevin Powell)
• We’ve been separating concerns wrong (and CSS is fixing it) (General Musings with Kevin Powell) – This topic of this video tied into some things I have been wondering about with CSS animations.
• The West Wing (Netflix)
• 2026 Winter Olympics (NBC and Peacock) – We watched the closing ceremonies on Sunday night.
• All Creatures Great & Small S6:E7 (PBS app)
• Miracle (Disney+)
• Picard S3:E8 (Paramount+)
• Twenty One Pilots: More Than We Ever Imagined (IMAX)

Books I am reading

• Sunday Matters (Paul David Tripp) – I read one devotional a week. I have five more to go.
• The Basketball 100 (David Aldridge & John Hollinger)
• Enjoying God (Tim Chester)

Walking

• Saturday – 3.85 miles in 1 hour 9 minutes

What I played

• MLB The Show 23 (Orioles) – I went 4-1 in games I played this week. The last game I played, I came back from an early 6-0 deficit. I tied it with 3 runs in the 8th and then hit a homer to win it in the 11th. I am having a lot of fun playing with this team.