I came across this on Facebook at the beginning of April. I would love to do something similar for a front-end developer. It represents all the things an architect needs to think about and balance in a design. A front-end developer has a lot of different things that they need to think about as they build a webpage.

I saw this over the weekend and it made me laugh. Reminds me of our architecture class juries. Some people knew how to pile it on very thick.

I had created a new hero image for a page on the Revive Our Hearts website. My team leader said that the tree made him think of the one that “eats” the hobbits in the Lord of the Rings. “I keep looking really closely in the roots for a face.” I couldn’t resist going to Photoshop to create a new version.

“Put it on the site. ?” I asked him if he was being serious (I didn’t think he was.) “hehe… just kidding. But I did consider it since that area of the photo is blurred”

I found this on Instagram. The fastest F1 pit stop is held by McLaren at 1.8 seconds. I had been watching Formula 1: Drive to Survive so I enjoyed this video. The illustrator is Tommy Spencer.

Adley Rutschman crushed a pitch to walk off in the 10th inning in a game I played last night. It is the tenth game that I have have from behind to win, and the fourth extra inning game out of the first 19 games. I am having a lot of fun playing with the 2023 team.

The picture does not quite do justice to the beauty I saw this morning.

We enjoyed seeing Stray Kids: The Dominate Experience in the theater on Friday night. My wife and I enjoyed going to this with our daughter, who is a huge Stray Kids fan (Stay). The experience gave us a peek into the K Pop fandom. I enjoy their music and it was pretty impressive to see the production that was put into their concert. Our daughter attended the concert tour this past summer in Atlanta.

I enjoyed seeing this message from my friend in Hungary this morning. It was confirmation that the book I sent him arrived. The book was meaningful to me when I read it and we are in the same chapter of life so I hope he can benefit from the pastoral wisdom of Christopher Ash.

Playing around with grid-lanes in a personal project. I love feature queries. I like that the syntax takes advantage of existing code in CSS grid. So much easier to learn. Grid-lanes demos: webkit.org/demos/grid3/

I have been making more of an effort to get out and walk. I was successful the past two evenings and made it four days in a row. It has been nice to walk at night just after work the past two days. I have been deep in a project for work and the walks have helped me to relax and transition out of the work day. That is about the only thing I miss about a daily commute–the time of transition.

I have also witnessed some very beautiful skies just around and after sunset. It has been food for my soul.

“Granted, there’s a case to be made that this is a little too clever, in that it could make this code a little more difficult to understand at a glance for anyone that might have to maintain this code after you (or, if you have a memory like mine, for your near-future self).”

– Mat “Wilto” Marquis. JavaScript is for Everyone, Lesson 7 on Expressions

I resonate with Mat’s comment. Sometimes the person that has to understand your code is yourself and some days you are not quite as clever as others.