Life Log: November 2024

An eventful month! Got married, and started a new job that I'm really stoked about. (Back to an IC role! I have plans to write something about the engineer/manager pendulum.)

Travis County Courthouse.

Wedding cake.

Glamping pups.
🧶 Projects
Works in progress
- Cielo Top (Closet Core Patterns): I put this away when I started onboarding for my new gig and haven't picked it back up again. Plan to in December!
- Quaking Aspen Wrap (Purl Soho): Another cast-on with other WIPs going. What can I say, doing some cozy knitting over the Thanksgiving holiday with football in the background was the way to go.
Finished objects
Nothing finished!
📚 Reads
- The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time #1): A friend is getting in striking distance of finishing the series. I got to book seven as a kid and then put it down. Time for another shot! A third of the way through book #2 now.
🎧 Writes
- Benefits of an open network (Emily Liu).
- The Betterment Metric (Angie Jones).
- Drinking from the Bluesky Firehose (Jake Lazaroff).
- A Framework for Evaluating Browser Support (Josh Comeau).
- 25 Accessibility Tips to Celebrate 25 Years (of WebAIM) (WebAIM).
- 1 Year of Steady Progress Is More Than I Expected (Jason Lengstorf).
- I don't have time to learn React (Keith Cirkel).
- My anti-overlay client letter (Alistair Shepherd).
- Making content-aware components using CSS :has(), grid, and quantity queries (Eric Bailey).
📺 Watches
- Web Without Walls (Dan Abramov).
- What can you build in 4 hours with Google Gemini? (Jason Lengstorf).
- Color in CSS Or How I Learned to Disrespect Tennis (Manuel Matuzović).
- How do QR codes work? (Veritasium).
👍🏼 Likes
- Bluesky: I had missed online community like this.
- Reader: I've only scratched the surface, but I've needed a new system to manage reads and links, and I'm liking Reader so far!
- Libby: This is very not new to me, but I was just thinking recently about how much I appreciate it. Love and use your local library, folks!
- omg.lol: I finally made one after seeing it one too many times from Cassidy.
Cover image: By Amberley Romo