Weeknotes 26:03

Posted 2 days ago

Week of January 11–17

  • It was a bit slower week than the previous two. Not that I am complaining. I struggled to use some of the spaces in my week to work on professional development as I was dragging a lot of days. I believe I was sleeping better at night but still getting use to a regular schedule and getting up earlier.
  • My work focused on updating pages about Robert Wolgemuth and updating or creating new content for our Women’s Ministry Essentials course that starts next week. We decided to move off a course platform and use our content management software (Django CMS) instead.
  • I downloaded a trial of Polypane at the end of the week. I believe I had used it for a short period of time in the past. I have been building a lot more page layouts from scratch and thought Polypane would be a good tool to allow me to see a lot of different screen sizes at once. It was helpful to me on Friday as I was evaluating a current site feature for different screens. It was nice to be able to view them all at once and think about how I might change some things.
  • During our team prayer time on Tuesday, we took time to share things we learned or stories of meaningful encounters with Robert Wolgemuth. This is the first time we had met together as a team since Robert went to be with the Lord the previous weekend. I was quite encouraged to hear from different people. I have also been reading one of his books, Gun Lap, over the past two weeks. It was good to spend that time together last week to grieve together and laugh together as we remembered this dear man.
  • I wrote an article about the apps that I currently use. I had written one in 2023 and 2024. I had seen others write these updated posts and it seemed like a good idea. I also updated my “uses” page.
  • Because I had worked the previous weekend to publish pages about Robert, my team leader told me to take a half-day on the day of my choosing. I decided to take it on Friday and I went to see The Fellowship of the Ring at the movie theater with my wife and youngest. The trilogy was re-released to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the first movie’s release. I enjoyed getting to revisit Middle Earth on the big screen. I had seen The Two Towers a couple of years ago with my kids. We plan to see The Return of the King next weekend.

Articles I read

Caught my eye

Text frame border animation rotation (Codepen)

See the Pen Text frame border animation rotation that [CSS & SVG] V 2 by Fernando Cohen (@designfenix) on CodePen.

Cyd Stumpel’s new site

I have been seeing previews of this site for weeks on Bluesky. I was excited to see the launched products which use a lot of scroll-driven animations and view transitions. I love it!

I grabbed this video off of Bluesky. I didn’t think a static screenshot did this one justice.

What I watched

Books I am reading

Walking – 10.25 miles

  • Monday – 3.25 miles in 1 hour
  • Tuesday – 3.43 miles in 1 hour 2 minutes
  • Saturday – 3.58 miles in 1 hour 7 minutes

What I listened to

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