Weeknotes 37

23 February 2026

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A brick-shaped e-reader.
A floppy disk titled Weeknotes 37.
if the layout is messed up in your rss reader, apologies, I did some gruesome CSS stuff—I recommend reading it in your browser.

What is this? you ask. Well, it’s a tale as old as time. I had a vision, and then it was Sunday night and I hadn’t achieved it. As I result, I present you this: something that might be interesting, if I spent a few more days on it. As it is, I feel my interest flagging enough that I am yeeting it out the door prematurely. Let’s pretend it’s experimental.

Fascinating life updates

  • I switched code editors to Sublime Text, from VS Code.
  • I also changed my editor font to Maple Mono, which is very pleasing.
  • I had a nice long weekend the other week in good company eating, watching movies, and sleeping.

Works in progress

Also filed under: stuff I posted about and then never finished, much like this post design.

Blog post

Tentatively for: my San Francisco trip, though began as a weeknotes mockup. I just wanted to do something stationery-inspired.

Mockup of a blog post about San Francisco photos. The header features a very faint grid pattern background, like graph paper. The nav menu is in a cute handwritten font, and the body text is in a rounded serif. There’s text in a box styled like a sticky note on the side.
Photo and caption.The caption is styled as three short comments: “these covered walkways were really nice!”; “covered walkway” is underlined, and an arrow points to the next comment, “apparently this is called an arcade”; the third smallest comment says “I should learn some basic architecture?”
what if i styled my captions in really elaborate, individual ways that absolutely do not scale

Font

I will finish this this year or die trying

Screenshot of my handwriting of the alphabet, numbers, and symbols, with different variants for many of them, as a draft for my handwriting font.

Works completed

I did finish one thing I’m proud of: this year’s Hourly Comic Day features every hour I was awake. Usually I get tired by the evening and stop, but I managed to get through it all this year!

Comic about my day. 8am: I wake suddenly before my alarm, like a genius morning person, and send cute cat videos while in bed. 9am: at my desk, writing my blog post, quite unsuccessfully. 10am: writing sucks, I should switch to drawing for something easier. However: IT’S NOT. I am in despair.

Read the whole thing here.

Works (minor)

I’ve been making smaller tweaks on my site, like, which include adding a reading tile to my homepage, now that I’m actually reading more, and adding a list view to my watchlist and games list.

Recent media

Movies

I’ve been rewatching a lot of movies lately, instead of watching new things, which is just another item in my long list of suboptimal life decisions. Why am I not maximizing every precious day I have by experiencing new things to become a more worldly, enlightened person?

Anyway, notably, I rewatched Moulin Rouge! and Romeo + Juliet, both in theatres, which is a great way to experience them. The music! The fast cutting!

Ink bust sketches of Satine from Moulin Rouge.

Reading

Against all odds (the odds being that I usually like to waste away instead of reading), I am also reading more.

  • The Count of Monte Cristo continues. It’s very amusing.
  • I’ve started House of Leaves, which is unnerving and weird (complimentary). Normally I would be zooming through a book like this to Find Out What Happens, but I’m reading it as part of a book club (population: 2), which invites me to slow down and examine the structure more closely than I otherwise would have. This is a very good book for examining structure.
  • I also started listening to the Pride and Prejudice audiobook. I’ve seen the movie but have never read the book.

Games

I’m still not gaming these days, but this week I’ll be trying Marathon during its free play period (server slam) before official launch (and welcome to the jam).

Okay, that’s it

Thanks for reading~ ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ