Notes from my week.
- Working on our build tools. Looking into Snowpack as a replacement for webpack.
- Reading about JavaScript tools and testing in the MDN Web Docs (part of the “Learn web development” guide)
- Published my 2020 Year in Review
- Working on my website. Doing some cleanup from my move to Eleventy and thinking about some design changes.
- Taking a look at Gatsby for a future project
- Played in the snow and went sledding with the kids
- K-State virtual town hall
Watched
- The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel — Finished season 2 and started season 3
- NHL: Penguins-Bruins
- Cobra Kai season 3
- NHL: Penguins-Bruins
- Horton Hears a Who!
- Ice Age: The Great Egg-Scapade
- NHL: Penguins-Rangers
Played
- NHL 21 (PS4)
- Ghost of Tsushima (PS4)
Reading
- Started Don’t Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
- Started So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
Podcasts
- ShopTalk Show — 447: Headless WordPress, Recent RSS Favs, Custom Post Types in WordPress themes, and Sharing Buttons
- Puck Soup — Penguin Panic
Links
- You want minmax(10px, 1fr) not 1fr
- Dynamic footer copyright date in Eleventy
- Desk Cable Management Guide
- Want to Be More Successful and Less Stressed? Stop Using This Word Inside Your Head
- CSS-Tricks — Snowpack
- Why and how to use Snowpack instead of webpack
- A Future Without Webpack
- The Third Age of JavaScript
- What is Deno and will it Replace NodeJS?
- The top latest build tools for JavaScript
- 10 FREE Variable Fonts
- A Whole Website in a Single HTML File
- Carrot Weather gets a fresh new design and a bigger shift to subscriptions —
I’m mostly upset that my widgets stopped working without a subscription.Restoring a previous purchase brought back the widgets (and Dark Sky data). - Jim Rutherford resigns as Pittsburgh Penguins GM, citing personal reasons
- A Hitman 3 streamer spent hours putting the entire town in a freezer
- Raya and the Last Dragon looks like a fantastical Ocean’s Eleven in the latest trailer
- Plex is launching a game subscription service filled with Atari games
- Tweetbot 6 brings essential updates and a monthly subscription to the iPhone’s best Twitter app
- Bond film delays are reportedly causing product placement havoc for brands
- Tony Hawk’s Last 720
- Writing Just 3 Sentences Each Day Can Massively Boost Your Productivity and Happiness