Weeknotes 25:31

August 4, 2025

Week of July 27–August 2

New Roof

Our house got a new roof on Thursday. It was a very noisy day working from home. My daughter let me borrow her noise canceling headphones and I was able to get some work done on the couch in our living room. We are really happy with the roof tile we choose. It compliments our house very well. We were able to get it replaced through our insurance due to a hail storm in May.

Hero question

As I was considering how to improve the hero element on our ministry website, it launched me into a question of whether or not the hero element of a page should be contained in the <main> element. I asked some people on Bluesky to weigh in. I did not get quite as big as response as the parent element sizing question but the feedback that I got was helpful. I captured some of my thoughts from going down this rabbit hole on Wednesday.

Refactoring CSS

I spent most of the day on Friday working on a CSS refactor for the hero elements on our site. The task had started out as thinking through how to write a template for the hero that could be used across the site. The pages that have a hero on the site each have the code for that in their own templates. But after examining the templates on the site, I realized that there would not be much of an advantage to trying to come up with a base template. There were just too many variations and there would not be much code saving. But I did determine that a refactor of the CSS was worth taking on. A refactor could cut down on the amount of duplicate code in different stylesheets throughout the site.

Articles I read

What I watched

Is HTML the hardest language? (Kevin Powell, YouTube) – I agree.

My Take On Cru’s Future (Brad Bright, YouTube) – I appreciated these thoughts from Brad Bright about the future of Cru. I was encouraged. Cru played a significant role in my Christian life and I am glad to hear the positive things from this year’s staff conference.

Books I am currently reading

Walking

I went for a 30 minute walk on Monday night but I did not record it in Strava.

What I played

  • MLB The Show 20 (Twins) – I went 3-1 this week, playing 2 games on Saturday.
  • NBA 2K25 (Nuggets) – I lost to the Lakers in a game I played on Saturday.

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