1 Jun 2024

Weeknotes 15

Reading

Blurry Type on Stealing Rocks — ooh CSS effect oooh
Canonize: Creating a Personal Canon Template by Brendan Schlagel — ‘personal canon’ is a good term…i have a half-assed ‘influences’ page I should work on
Coding my Handwriting by Amy Goodchild – cool handwriting
Design outside the computer by Eva Decker — writeup of a super cool guestbook on a super cool website!!
Printing music with CSS Grid by Stephen Band — nice
Slop is the new name for unwanted AI-generated content by Simon Willison — u hate to see it
Why AI art will always kind of suck by Rebecca Jennings for Vox

But if you look at art and all you see is content, or if you look at a picture of a hot girl and all you see are JPGs in the shape of a sexual object, that’s all you’ll get out of it.

11ty Conf

aka International Symposium on Making Web Sites Real Good:

Building a Town that Doesn’t Exist by Dan Sinker
Digital Frontiers, IndieWeb Cowboys, and A Place Online To Call Your Own by Henry Desroches
Chinese Type Systems by ivan zhao

VanCAF

I went to the Vancouver Comic Arts Festival.

Six comics and zines laid out on a table. — comics and zines I bought

Golden Record by Rosemary Valero-O’Connell
Of Thunder & Lightning by Kimberly Wang
Heartwood: Non-binary Tales of Sylvan Fantasy (anthology)
Blind Alley (no.1) by Adam de Souza
Italy: summer 2019 travel zine by Irene Lam
Let’s Mosey! a final fantasy vii fanzine by Ashlena Sharma

Gardening

It’s gardening season!! This year, I’m growing:

Cherry tomatoes (hoping birds don’t eat these before I can)
Lettuce
Green onions
Spinach
Arugula
Vietnamese coriander (rau ram)
Thai basil (rau quế)

A bunch of plants for sale at a plant nursery.

Various vegetables to grow in shopping baskets.

Also some flowers! And I bought a monstera yesterday.

Flower pot of a variety of small pink and purple flowers. In the background are more pots.

Two photos of green onions in a jar of water: the first is when they're newly planted, and the second when they've grown out and are ready to eat. — Bonus green onions next to the window.

Games

Destiny 2

I thought my Destiny lull would last all the way until the expansion in a few days, but it turns out a limited-time event is enough to drag me back and I’ve spent an embarrassing number of hours playing in the last two weeks. I grinded my way through Pantheon weeks 2 and 3, and did 3/8 encounters in week 4, but have now officially given up 🫡 The Final Shape, I am ready for you!!!

Emoting in Explicator encounter next to the rally flag, wearing all superblack. — explicator, aka the fire tornado encounter

Tweet that reads: 'He died doing what he loved. Standing in an easily avoidable aoe' — mood

Tiny Glade

I’ve been excited for this ever since I saw the WIP videos the devs would post on Twitter last year. The free demo is out now and it’s very beautiful as expected.

Game screenshot of cute stone walls and buildings, with ivy growing on the walls, cute window details, and grass. The vibe is cozy.

A few buildings encircled by stone fences, pictured in daytime. There are flower bushes. The ground is unevenly elevated, with rocky paths.

Misc. want to play

Final Fantasy VII (yeah, yeah, I bought a fanzine for this but I’ve never actually played it), ANIMAL WELL (which I’m hearing universally good things about), and I wishlisted some cute games in Steam’s Cozy & Family Friendly collection.

Concert

I went to see Glass Beams perform:

A synthesist performs under purple lighting. — glass beams

Northern lights

A blurry grey cat, lying on its side and looking up at me. — best i (phone) could see

I’m going to XOXO in Portland in August! Would love to meet you if you’re going? Is there an indieweb meetup? Someone tell me how this works.