Creativity, curiosity, and code
Continuing my "reading books" habit - I've finished TWO in 2024!! I was one of Manton's Kickstarters for Micro.blog and his book. The book is finally here. And I've managed to read it quite quickly (for me). Is it any good?
I've been doing really well maintaining a read-everyday habit, determined to plough through my pile of un-read or part-read books. Here are my very brief thoughts on Doughnut Economics.
I used some hacky JavaScript to scrape my friends birthdays from Facebook so that I can put them in my actual calendar.
The Holy Grail is this: wireless, reliable, low-latency, high-quality sound in a reasonably-priced, portable package with noise reduction that doesn't rely on fancy software that the IT and security departments won't like. Is it possible?
I can't use any of my favourite note-taking apps at work. But I can use a web browser and I can write JavaScript. The logical conclusion is, of course, that I should build my own!
This phrase has been a huge change of mindset for me. Really transformative. And I'm much happier. Here's what I mean.
I don't buy many clothes. I don't like buying clothes. But I needed to buy clothes. And so I bought clothes. And it was fun!!
Remember Wordle? I LOVE puzzles, and we've accumulated quite a few fun things to do each day as a family. We generally do some of these over the breakfast table. It's AMAZING that all this stuff exists and is so accessible. Here's our favourites.
This time it's a static-file-driven, mobile-app-like blog. And the tooling I made should be usable on any simple WordPress blog! But... WHY???
I'm not a big end-of-year/start-of-year post guy. But 2023 did become rather chaotic, and I want to start 2024 with some energy and discipline. So... how?