Weeknotes 24:16

April 23, 2024

Week of April 14–20

Articles I read

Favorite Reads of the Week

• Am I Confident or Arrogant? (John Piper)
• Craft vs Industry: Separating Concerns
• We Need To Rewild The Internet 

• Your Faith is Secondhand
• Both Worm and Worthy
• Follow your ADHD flow (Chris Ferdinandi)
• Pickin’ dates (Jeremy Keith)
• There are No Free Bets (Samuel James)
• You Are What You Read, Even If You Don’t Always Remember It (Jim Nielsen)
• How my son got into Duke (Geoff Graham) – Some thoughts on AI and writing.
• Drive-by accessibility tweaks (Bruce Lawson)
• An intro to CSS Grid (Chris Ferdinandi)
• Inclusive Design Advocacy: A Guide to Navigating Tough Conversations with Your Teams
• Notes at 46 (Naz Hamid)
• Cooperative Games (Chris Coyier)
• Faster Connectivity !== Faster Websites (Jim Nielsen)
• Displaying HTML web components (Jeremy Keith)
• A Neglected Discipleship Tool
• The Gateway Drug to Post-Christian Paganism (Carl Trueman)
• You and I Probably Would Have Been Nazis (Samuel James)
• AI isn’t useless. But is it worth it?
• Before Cancer, Death Was Just Other People’s Reality. Not Anymore. (The Gospel Coalition)
• You Don’t Need a Bucket List
• This Web of Ours, Revisited (Jeffrey Zeldman)
• People & Blogs: Simone Silvestroni
• Consistent Navigation Across My Inconsistent Websites (Jim Nielsen)
• Stewarding Your Gifts (Paul David Tripp)
• Reflecting Christ in the Crucible of Your Marriage

What I watched

Papyrus 2 from SNL (YouTube) – A must-watch sequel to Ryan Gosling’s infamous Papyrus skit.

• 2010: The Year We Make Contact (Netflix) – One of my favorite sci-fi movies.
• Kim’s Convenience (Netflix) – We finished watching through this for the third time.
• Together: Treble Winners (Netflix) – I finished this at the beginning of the week. As a City fan, I enjoyed this series.
• Bad Batch Season 3 (Disney+)
• Sleepless in Seattle (DVD)
• White Collar (Netflix)

Books I am reading

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

Walking – 16.29 miles

• Monday morning – 2.88 miles in 53 minutes
• Tuesday morning – 2.90 miles in 1 hour 5 minutes
• Thursday morning – 2.72 miles in 49 minutes
• Thursday afternoon – 1.87 miles in 34 minutes
• Friday morning – 3.35 miles in 1 hour
• Saturday morning – 2.57 miles in 46 minutes

What I played

• MLB The Show 23 (Rays) – I lost all three games I played this week. The Yankees are now a half-game behind me with less than a month left in the season.
• FIFA23 (Manchester City)