Weeknotes 26:10

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Week of March 1–7

  • I started on a new project on Monday. I built and styled the page for the digital version of the March newsletter. This is my third time and went lot quicker because of the foundation I have built doing two last year.
  • I continued working on the Mujer Verdadera ’26 website. I added more subpages and edited some content on pages that I had already built. I also swapped out the promotional video with the placeholder video. I think we are looking to launch the conference pages this coming week (March 9–13).
  • At the end of last year, we had added the ability to customize the hero on the Revive Our Hearts site. And this month, we updated the hero image for spring. We got requests from our Spanish site and Portuguese site to use the same image. So I refactored several templates to add the same functionality to those sites plus our French site. I also made it more flexible so that you could just customize what you needed (hero image, heading, teaser, calls to action buttons) and then fall back to defaults if no content was provided in the CMS. Now our other teams can update any part of the hero they want and not have to rely on our team.
  • I updated the Wonder of the Word timeline on the 2025 Annual Praise report to reflect changes I had made in the timeline before we launched a new version of the Wonder of the Word page that contained the same timeline. The timeline is my first scroll-driven animation using CSS.

Museum memories

This month the topic for the IndieWeb Blog Carnival is “Museum Memories.” The topic was chosen by James at James’ Coffee Blog. I took a cue from Joe Crawford and decided to share two museum memories that came to mind while I was reading Joe’s entry. I shared about visiting the Design Musuem of Barcelona with my son in May 2024. And my second memory was the Salvador Dalí Musuem in St. Petersburg, Florida that I visited after the Front-End Design Conference in 2011. At the end of the post, I listed out all the museums that remembered to have visited along with some that I would like to visit in the future, including several here in Chattanooga.

Adventures in subgrid

I wrote another post this week about my recent adventures in using subgrid to solve layout problems in my work. It is a great solution to lining up content on the same grid over two or more columns in a parent grid. I included several examples from recent work on Revive Our Hearts.

I referenced Josh Comeau’s recent article, Brand New Layouts with CSS Subgrid. I also reference several videos by Kevin Powell and along with some other resources.

Read Adventures in subgrid

Enjoying The Show

I have had a lot of fun over the past few weeks playing MLB The Show ’23 with the Baltimore Orioles. I had finished a season with the 2020 Twins earlier last month and decided to jump into the 2023 edition, which was the last one I bought. The Orioles had a pretty good year in 2023 and I wanted to play with their young team.

I have gotten off to a good start. Gunnar Henderson looks like a shoe in for the Rookie of the Year. His defense at third has been superb and he getting a lot of key hits including homers to propel my team. I was very happy over the last week that Anthony Santander got hot. He had a slow start and I was considering promoting someone from the farm system or looking for a trade. But after sitting him for a couple of games, he went on a tear getting multiple hits per game and several homers. He raised his average from near .200 to the mid .300s.

I have had a lot of fun playing with this team and finding ways to win in the late innings. My bullpen has been lights out with Felix Bautista anchoring the effort. I have had many blow out games recently so Bautista has not had as many save opportunities to lead the league. Things are starting to click with several of the players who got a slow start. Austin Hays has hit safely in 22 games out of the 23 I have played through Saturday. I had a 9 game win streak snapped on Saturday by the Red Sox.

Article I read

I read several articles this week about AI/LLM including three by Nolan Lawson. I appreciated that Nolan acknowledged our need to grieve and mourn our craft. But I also appreciated his challenge not to lose our sense of wonder and to take a moment to be amazed. He also captured a lot of what I have been thinking and feeling about the past few months in You had a story. I appreciated his honesty and willingness to see things from a different perspective.

On AI/LLM

Museum memories – other entries for this month’s Indie Web Blog Carnival

Other articles

Iranian church and current events

What I watched

Books I am reading

What I listened to?

Walking – 13.24 miles

It has been two years since I started walking to get in shape for my trip to Europe with my son in April 2024. Little did I know that walking (and praying) would become so important to surviving a year of unemployment that started a few weeks later.

Two years later, I am still walking regularly. Not as much as I would like, but I keep showing up. This was a good week, and I got out 4 times. I am shooting for around 5 and around 16 miles a week. So I didn’t hit my goal this week, but it was progress.

  • Sunday – 3.26 miles in 1 hour
  • Monday – 3.04 miles in 57 minutes
  • Tuesday – 3.23 in 59 minutes
  • Saturday – 3.71 miles in 1 hour 8 minutes

What I played

MLB The Show 23 (Orioles) – I went 6-1 this week with Boston breaking my 9 game winning streak on Saturday. The highlight was a walk off homer by Adley Rutschman. I also had two 9-4 blowouts against the Tigers where I hit lots of homers.

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