Notes from my week.
- Updated the K-State Admissions Representatives API to the final development URLs and got it ready for testing
- Working on our build tools. Trying to get Snowpack to fit into our current workflow has been a bit difficult.
- Working on my website
- Continued working on my inspiration project
- Family Zoom game night for my mom’s birthday. Played some Jackbox games.
- Valentine’s Day! We got our kids some Pokémon starter sets and learned how to play the game.
Watched
- The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel — finished season 3
- NHL: Penguins-Islanders
- Ice Age: The Meltdown
- DuckTales
- NHL: Penguins-Capitals
- Titanic — My first time watching this movie
Played
- NHL 21 (PS4)
- Ghost of Tsushima (PS4)
- Drawful 2 (PC, Epic Games)
- The Jackbox Party Pack 3 (PC, Epic Games)
Reading
- Finished So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
- Started The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Podcasts
- ShopTalk Show — 449: JavaScript in 2021, Writing Workflow, Picking a CMS and Web Hosting, and Web Workers?
- Puck Soup — Sports G.O.A.T. Debate
Links
- How Sony designed the PS5’s ultimate easter egg
- Pittsburgh Penguins hire Brian Burke as president, Ron Hextall as GM
- Ikea’s huge new gamer gear lineup includes this weird wooden desk hand
- If you’re vaccinated against COVID-19, you won’t have to quarantine if you’re exposed
- Clash of the GOATs: Why Wayne Gretzky is the greatest team sports player ever — not Tom Brady
- Go read this article about how we got duped into cooking with gas
- “We need to stop advocating Helvetica as the best typeface.”
- I Miss My Bar is like audio therapy for barflies
- Kitty Letter is a new mobile word game from the creator of The Oatmeal, and it’s good
- Is CSS float deprecated? — It’s been quite a while since I’ve had to think about using float for layout, and I’m pretty happy about that
- The web is something different
- One month on Analog — I’ve tried bullet journaling, and I would probably enjoy a handwritten productivity system — but I also like having all my tasks and project information available digitally at all times
- HTML Video Sources Should Be Responsive