Weeknotes 24:15

April 15, 2024

Week of April 7–13

Articles I read

Favorite reads of the week

• An Interactive Guide to CSS Container Queries (Ahmad Shadeed) – Ahmad has created another interactive guide and like the first one, it is great. I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to learn about container queries. Filled with a lot of different use cases.
• Web dev craftsmanship (Chris Ferdinandi) – Chris had a realization that his dissatisfaction with the state of the Web is because he views Web development as a craft and the current industry does not share that view. I am with Chris. I view Web development as a craft and I am disappointed to see how few seem to still value this as I look for a new opportunity.

• What is a Biblical Man?
• Normal Life
• Why Cancel Culture Needs the Breathtaking Mercy of God’s Kingdom (The Gospel Coalition)
• Let John Fisher’s A’s leave Oakland, and let’s see who’s better off (The Athletic) – It is sad to see what is happening in Oakland with the A’s.
• Shohei Ohtani on rise of arm injuries: Pitching with max effort, clock could be ‘significant factor’ (The Athletic)
• Yankees’ Gerrit Cole criticizes MLB’s response to rise of pitcher injuries (The Athletic)
• What is causing MLB’s rash of pitching injuries? Analyzing the data on all the biggest questions (The Athletic)
• ‘I’m not a cynic, I’m disappointed’ – I share in Baldur’s sentiments.
• Testing HTML With Modern CSS (Heydon Pickering)
• ADHD isn’t a deficit of attention (and doesn’t necessarily mean you’re hyperactive) (Chris Ferdinandi) – As someone who does not have this condition, I appreciated Chris educating me. I find that a lot of things in the medical field are poorly named.
• WordPress.com has Studio, a native app for running WordPress locally, and GitHub Deployments (Chris Coyier) – It is interesting to see that Automatic has created a local development solution. I am curious to try it out and see how it compares to Local.
• Why did the MLBPA suffer an attempted mutiny, and what comes next for the union? (The Athletic)
• Why I Care Deeply About Web Accessibility And You Should Too – Great article with a broader view of the subject of accessibility.
• The Case for Holy Obstinacy (Trevin Wax on The Gospel Coalition)
• A weighted vest (Dave Rupert) – After reading this article, I have considered if I might want to add something like this to my walk routine.
• For Shohei Ohtani, exoneration seemingly is at hand (The Athletic) – It seems there is strong evidence to support that Ohtani was not involved in the gambling mess with his translator.

What I watched

How A Small Team of Developers Created React at Facebook | React.js: The Documentary (YouTube)
I did not know the story behind React. I enjoyed hearing how it came about and from those who worked on it.

• Barcelona Travel Guide to May 2024 (YouTube) – I watched this ahead of my trip to Barcelona in a couple of weeks.
• Avatar: The Last Airbender (Netflix – animated) – We finished the series. I liked the story and how it ended.
• Somebody Feed Phil (Netflix)
• Kim’s Convenience (Netflix)
• Together: Treble Winners (Netflix)
• Bad Batch Season 3 (Disney+)
• Is it Cake? Season 3 (Netflix)

Books I am reading

• Born Again This Way
• Gentle and Lowly (Third reading)
• Necessary Endings
• Responsible JavaScript

Walking

• Sunday, April 7 (afternoon) – 3.62 miles in 1 hour 5 minutes
• Wednesday, April 10 (afternoon) – 2.37 miles in 42 minutes
• Thursday, April 11 (morning) – 3.77 miles in 1 hour 9 minutes
• Friday, April 12 (morning) – 2.66 miles in 43 minutes

What I played

• MLB The Show 23 (Rays) – I played 4 games this past week and won all 4 of them. The first 3 were against the Rockies and the fourth against the Yankees. I entered the series with the Yankees 1 game ahead of them in the division with just over a month to play. I had made a trade for Jonah Heim before the trade deadline. The trade has worked out great as it has added some offensive firepower to my lineup. He hit a 3 run homer that put me ahead of the Yankees to win the first game of the series.
• FIFA23 (Manchester City) – I realized last week that I had not been saving the game correctly and my progress in the second season (23-24) was no longer available. I decided the restart the season and have enjoyed a great start. It has been a lot of fun to play with City as I have been watching the Treble Winners series on Netflix.