I'm thinking about weaving again.
4 minute read
I feel funny about yesterday, I think because I spent a fair bit of time not at my desk? It's okay.
Pompom - Try to make a windows build
I have no way at the moment to test this, so not a great dev cycle, but hopefully my brother will try it at some point this week and I'll get feedback. I imagine it might just not work, or worse, look ugly.
Forge.horse - Generate instagram txt Return.horse - make comic
I have added the instagram text to forge.horse in possible the most unnappealing way possible.
I already have ideas on what to change, and how. But one step at a time, the most important part is making it usable. The instagram text is what I copy and past into the 'accesibility' inputs, it's the image description for each rendered panel.
I understand why a lot of programs look how they look - developers just ship things into where ever there's space and if it's good enough then it's good enough. The next step is to plan the couple of changes I want to make, then build it as an application (eg stop using dev mode)
Whiteboard/kinopio - update project lists, add more
I typed this stuff up, not much to say here
bread
I started another sourdough loaf, this time 20% wholemeal. It's a wetter dough, a different process. I'm hoping it tastes a bit better than the plain white one. I've just finished the final shape and I'm letting it rise beside an oven element on low, because the apartment's a little colder than it was yesterday. I'll score it four or 5 ways with small, kind of like a star.
Small - write guidelines for small projects
I started writing these last night in a notebook:
Things need to be small, otherwise
- I lose energy.
- I lose focus.
- It takes to long to make.
We don't need big things. Big things are made from small things. Small things done well.
These remind me of what I read in The Art of Unix Programming, summarised in Small, Sharp Tools on Brandur.org.
- Rule of Modularity: Write simple parts connected by clean interfaces.
- Rule of Composition: Design programs to be connected to other programs.
- Rule of Parsimony: Write a big program only when it is clear by demonstration that nothing else will do.
Of course in this case, for my purposes, a big project will never do. Big projects are for another time and place. Small things are easier to fix, maintain, and limit the potential for scope creep.
Called Grandma
I had a good chat to Grandma. We talked about life, about being a grandson, about adventure and creativity. She has COVID, but I gathered she wasn't symptomatic. The main issue was she couldn't leave her part of the resting home to see her partner, who's in the other section. She also mentioned reading a book and how it gave her a lot to think about, and how that was important now because she couldn't garden, walk, or pursue any of the other hobbies she used to do. I think she's the only old person I know, and I wonder if I should try to know more? When I went to church there were old people all over, but I don't want to go to church.
what else
I'm thinking about weaving again.
Textile, A Diagonal Abstraction: Glass Bead in conversation with T’ai Smith
The Soul of Time
by Trumbull Stickney
- TIME'S a circumference
- Whereof the segment of our station seems
- A long straight line from nothing into naught.
- Therefore we say " progress, " " infinity " —
- Dull words whose object
- Hangs in the air of error and delights
- Our boyish minds ahunt for butterflies.
- For aspiration studies not the sky
- But looks for stars; the victories of faith
- Are soldiered none the less with certainties,
- And all the multitudinous armies decked
- With banners blown ahead and flute before
- March not to the desert or th' Elysian fields,
- But in the track of some discovery,
- The grip and cognizance of something true,
- Which won resolves a better distribution
- Between the dreaming mind and real truth.
- I cannot understand you.
- 'T is because
- You lean over my meaning's edge and feel
- A dizziness of the things I have not said.
listening to
TDJ - All I Want For Christmas Is An Acoustic Guitar (1 - 2 - 3 - 4)
questions
- Where can I let reading and contemplation back into my life?
- Where does my sense of self come from?