Weeknotes 25:50

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Week of December 7–13

  • My big project for the week was to build a landing page for a discipleship app for teen girls that is part of the Wonder of The Word initiative and Read Through the Bible in 2026. Unlike several of my recent page build projects, I was supplied a design mockup for this one. And a Photoshop mockup at that. I don’t think I have built any projects from a Photoshop mockup in ten years or so. I was able to build it out, adjust layouts for smaller screens, and add some animations to deliver it late in the week.
  • I filled in the gaps with a lot of smaller tasks of updating and applying edits to some of the other big projects for the end of the year.
  • I got to reuse a technique that I picked up from Cassie Evans and I used In the Real World Learning project in 2022. I used a PNG image as a mask and then created a SVG in Affinity Designer so that I could animate the path to make it look like the element was drawn on the page.

Front End Study Hall

I took some time out of my day on Thursday to participate in Front End Study Hall. We talked a lot about CSS focused topics. We helped one of the participants think through a solution for hiding a navigation and then showing it again on hover. I showed off the scroll-driven animation that I created for a recent project (view in Chrome, Safari, or Edge). Joe mentioned Kevin Powell’s interview with Adam Argyle in which Adam shared about the challenges of his job search this past year. We also talked about clip-paths, typography, and a book of symbols from Penguin that had no graphics.

Read the notes from Front End Study Hall #42 and find out more about future study halls. The next one is coming up on December 30.

Articles I read

Caught my eye

Rubber AI – This one made me laugh. The best AI is still the rubber duck.

Size of Life – A beautiful experience of motion, sound, and custom illustrations (no AI). It compares the size of living things.

What I watched

  • The Voice (NBC)
  • Watson (CBS)
  • A Man on the Inside, Season 2 (Netflix) – We finished season 2 this week. We didn’t feel like it was quite as good as season 1 but still entertaining.
  • Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (Paramount+) – I am into season 3 now.
  • Matlock (Paramount+)
  • Boston Blue (Paramount+)
  • Percy Jacksons and the Olympians, Season 2 (Disney+)
  • Hawkeye (Disney+) – We decided to revisit this series because it takes place over the Christmas holiday.

Books I am reading

What I listened to

Walking

  • Monday – 3.35 miles in 1 hour 4 minutes
  • Tuesday – 2.95 miles in 56 minutes

What I played

  • MLB The Show 20 (Twins) – I tied the MLB record for wins in a season by a team with 116.
  • NBA 2K25 (Nuggets) – I came back and won in both of the games I played.

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