i promised myself to limit the number of posts about the website. something something health of a platform inversely correlated with posts about said platform. part truth part superstition
but there were still a bunch of thoughts i wanted to get out of the way so uh here they are
spent a while making the post background have a dotted square pattern like in the hobonichi techo. i’ve never even owned one of these notebooks, but…
is that you can feel real bad for being no contact on a family member’s birthday, open up your journal, see the linked entry for last year, read up on that disaster that you’d totally forgotten about, and feel a bit of peace for missing out on that this year round
had a sudden burst of hyperfocus and made a mask cover even though i’m not great at sewing and didn’t know what i was doing. i traced the mask and winged it, and it shows because there’s various parts that weren’t quite the right shape and had to be adjusted once the mask wasn’t flat on my desk. turns out that thinking in 3D is kinda hard (but also kinda exciting)!! it’s held on by being tucked into the corners,…
it’s a pretty rare event here, for which i’m grateful
my partner used it as an excuse to bail on a work meeting. i used it to marvel at how flushing toilets preceded electricity, and to feel kind of weird about the amount of things i wanted to do which used electricity, including “boring” stuff like laundry
was introduced to OKLCH as an alternative to RGB. most explanations do a good job of explaining the LCH part (Lightness, Chroma, Hue). but where’s the OK from? apparently it’s derived from the Oklab color space. so i thought maybe this is like the CIELAB color space, where the CIE is an acronym for the institution that developed it? maybe if i search the name of the person who introduced it, i’ll find their site and a blog…
it was real nice! would recommend to a friend
brought a good sandwich (veggie chicken, sun-dried tomatoes, olives, pesto, cucumber. remember to press the sandwich to mush all the good flavours together!). would also recommend this to a friend
did a bit more work on the site! it’s now got
my profile picture was purple and blue on cohost and while i did like it i think it would have been a bit too rich and heavy for the vibe i was going for here. for the main colour i’ve chosen a kind of cool green which is one of my favourite…
i spent a bit of time pottering around this site. it’s still a work in progress but it’s starting to feel a little bit more lived in
i added a now section to my homepage. i found out about the now page thing from browsing around people’s sites after the cohost shutdown (rip, and also i haven’t collected my thoughts about that yet). compared to an about section, i like how it’s ephemeral and focused on things i’m doing…
this was originally posted on cohost
chances are that if you’ve heard of stenography it’s in the context of it being a way to write things really fast. that’s fair — that is the primary purpose of it — but i wanted to talk about writing slowly
for perspective, professional stenographers need to hit 225 wpm to graduate. while working, they may need to be even faster to match the maximum speed that most people can understand audio — around…