Weeknotes 23
internet links
- Creating an HTML “spoilers” element with no JS by Sage (wavebeem)
- Gabriele Pala’s website — omg!!
- I have some notes on Sam Altman’s note-taking advice by Elizabeth Lopatto in The Verge — now this is hard-hitting journalism!!!
“I am not going to get into the fountain pens question because it, like the paper discussion, is for sickos.”
- I even wrote a sickos garden post about my hunt for a new notebook so this was especially timely. Also amusing how the article calls out the leuchtturm A5 notebook and muji 0.38 gel pen, which are what I primarily use lol
- The influencer lawsuit that could change the industry by Mia Sato in The Verge
- tiny wanderer — such a cute personal site!
noise-cancelling airpods are good, actually
Apologies in advance for talking about fucking Apple products here. God, ugh. I hate it too.
I bought the AirPods Pro 2 on Black Friday. I resisted for a long time, but my current pair—2nd-gen airpods that I’ve had for several years—were dying horribly in that one of them would lose connection within 5–30 minutes every time and I was rationing my use of them, which is quite frankly a ridiculous way to live.
I thought about simply buying another pair of 2nd gen airpods because they’re cheaper and like Fine, I don’t need the fancy new features anyway, but upon further discussion with a friend, I decided to get the newest Pro model because maybe I do need the fancy new shit—particularly noise cancellation and hearing protection.
And okay, my dudes: I have never used a noise cancelling product before. I legitimately did not realize how effective noise cancellation is until I put on my new airpods and it shut out the loud ass noises from my air fryer. Bruh. What the fuck. This surprised me so much I was kind of just sitting around staring into space, marveling at this, and then I forgot to flip my air fryer food. So you know. What the fuck.
Anyway. I’ve had these airpods for one day and I’m completely sold on them. I haven’t even worn them outside yet! But yeah okay I get it now. Noise cancellation is good. I hope these last me fucking forever, I am loathe to buy new electronics and I’m irate about the horrible working lifespan of modern tech.
In conclusion:
media aka DC
I finished Young Justice season 1! Shit’s fun, I love these superhero sidekick kids. I’m less a fan of how only season 1 is available on N*tflix—girl, what is up with this kind of licensing—so now I have to like, watch the rest of it somewhere else? It’s available on *squints* “”“fubo”“”?? Really?? Ugh.
As part of my horrible, embarrassing descent into DC comics, I’ve also been drawing Robin fanart.
a brief aside
I stumbled across a very old Marvel fancomic I made—dated November 27, 2014!!—and I feel like I need to redraw it. It’s from ten years ago! Jesus Christ. It tickles me that ten years ago I was deeply into Marvel, and now I am getting into DC after never having been interested in it. Life is so weird and delightful.
(to briefly summarize the comic: it’s like, 10 panels long and doesn’t make much sense. it’s vaguely amerikate. that’s all!)
some WIPs
No idea how my media 2024 post is going to actually turn out, but I’ve been having fun pushing some rectangles in Figma for it:
It’ll probably change a lot! My plan is to draw lots of art for it, and I’m an expert at being too ambitious and paring down my vision as I actually get into the thick of things. I like how it looks here though.