I don’t normally do weeknotes. I have attempted to do similar things in the past but they never stuck. Writing out a list of things that happened during the week, in great or little detail, simply doesn’t interest me. I would gladly read weeknotes from bloggers I follow, but I’m not keen on writing them myself.
Now that that’s out of the way, here are some things that happened during the week so far.
Today was HWC Europe day. I shared my screen during the call and showed everyone the feeds I’ve been working on (I had written about them earlier, here and here). Compared to all the cool things people are doing on their websites, my updates usually tend to be quite basic, but I like showing what I have accomplished with limited technical knowledge.
I bought a domain during the call, effectively resetting the timer. It’s filmposte.rs, which had been in my cart for a while, and I had completely forgotten about it, until the timer was brought up during the call by Sophia (who owns Fractal Kitty, Inquiries.Link, there is - such that and many other cool sites). For now, I will redirect the domain to my /design page, until I find something cooler to do with it.
HWC coincided with a solar eclipse, the most significant since 1999, which was sadly obscured by cloud cover in Belfast. We watched the Greenwich Observatory’s live stream of the phenomenon instead. James wrote a beautiful post about it.
Something else he had written earlier today also caught my attention. In his Impressions; museums post, he talks about memories made in museums. It resonated with me and made me think about how much I enjoy museums, too. They are some of my favourite spaces. Whenever we find ourselves in a new city, we always visit at least one museum. My wife and I love our museum dates. She likes to make fun of how I spend so much time in them, reading every bit of information I can find on every plaque. And although I don’t retain all the information I read, the reading itself is a pleasurable exercise. James puts this beautifully:
I bring back snippets of knowledge I learn from information plaques. I don’t remember most of the details I read, but what I do read helps me understand a work in the moment, and influences the impression that I will take away. There are some details I will remember; paintings with vivid stories, paintings that use a technique I have never seen before, information plaques where the author has included a detail that sticks in my mind.
I find it to be my way of honouring the thought and effort that went into the piece itself—be it art, sculpture, or something else—the care that went into the curation and the display, and the enormous privilege I am exercising by having access to the piece in the first place. All that may sound a bit corny, but I believe it.
I also read this helpful post by Jens Oliver Meiert which lists a few npx packages that help with spellcheck, link rot check, image compression, and HTML validation. I aim to test these over the next few days and incorporate them into my workflow. Thanks, Jens!
That concludes my (mid)week-NO-te. Back with a “proper” post tomorrow.
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