Notes
🖖🏻 I’m watching the episode where Worf joins the crew of DS9. When the camera panned up from his feet to his face, I thought, “Oh, it’s my buddy Worf! I want to hug him.”
Finished reading: Wild Rain by Beverly Jenkins 📚
I loved the heroine in this one. Spring is a tough rancher who has been cut off from her feelings for years, except for the feelings she has for horses.
Finished reading: Rebel by Beverly Jenkins 📚
Ms. Bev knows her business and does it well.
In Romancelandia, Valentine’s Day is, as the French say, un jour férié. In honor of the day, if you give me the title and description of any book you’ve enjoyed, I’ll recommend a romance for you to try.
🔖 Read The Courts Can’t Stop the Trump-Musk Coup.
Courts are not known for their harm prevention—they’re best used when trying to hold someone accountable for the harm they already caused.
🎮 Playing the first Final Fantasy pixel remaster and it makes me so happy. The music especially. I have played this video game more than any other. It’s very soothing.
📚💬 “We can’t hide in romance. We have to find strength in it.” Adriana Herrera in today’s episode of Fated Mates
Today’s Progress: Completed the freeCodeCamp certification project, “Learn Typography by Building a Nutrition Label.”
Thoughts: This actually helped me understand justifying content using flexbox as much as it helped me understand typography.
🍿 Watched Saturday Night.
A delight, specially crafted for sketch comedy nerds like myself.
Finished reading: After Hours on Milagro Street by Angelina M. Lopez 📚
So great. It made me cry. Jeremiah, the hero book, is a phenomenal example of an engaged scholar.
Today’s Coding Progress: Completed the freeCodeCamp certification project, “Learn CSS Flexbox by Building a Photo Gallery.”
Thoughts: This is where my conceptual understanding of CSS starts to fall apart. I’m definitely going to dig deeper into this topic before I move on at freeCodeCamp.
Later-coding update from Monday:
Today’s Progress: Completed the freeCodeCamp certification project, “Learn the CSS Box Model by Building a Rothko Painting.”
Thoughts: The basics of the box model were already quite familiar, but I really appreciated the reminder that we now have CSS properties (and have for a very long time) for things like making drop shadows, blurring, rounding corners, and rotating. Again, these are not new properties, but my internal sense of CSS is based on CSS 2.0 circa 2002, so these are useful reminders.
It’s just a terrible time for timelines. I’m mostly hanging out in my email inbox and Discord these days.
🔖 Read The history of anti-authoritarian struggle is a history worth repeating by Sarah Freeman-Woolpert (Waging Nonviolence).
📚 Happy book birthday to Adriana Herrera and A Tropical Rebel Gets the Duke!
I played Spyro the Dragon (Reignited Trilogy version) and had fun but 3D games mostly give me motion sickness so now I feel gross. Uninstalled and will try Kirby Super Star tomorrow. 🎮
🔖 Read The Logic of Destruction by Timothy Snyder.
Nothing is inevitable. Do not be alone and do not be dismayed. Find someone who is doing something you admire and join them.
🔖 Read How to organize under authoritarian creep in a closing civil society.
This is my playbook moving forward.
Finished reading: Rule of the Aurora King by Nisha J. Tuli 📚
🍿 Watched Dog Man.
Exactly what it says on the tin. If you enjoy the Dog Man graphic novels, you’ll enjoy the movie, and if you don’t, you won’t.
Today’s Coding Progress: Completed the freeCodeCamp projects, “Learn CSS Colors by Building a Set of Colored Markers.”
Thoughts: CSS is already breaking my brain here. Using it to style empty containers chafes against my feeling that it should be for styling content, not styling blank space. I thought this was a thing of me not being smart or with-it enough to understand this use of CSS, but now I think it’s a conceptual problem. From this conceptual problem flow all kinds of struggles with understanding properties and the arguments they take. This is definitely a place where a reference will come in handy. So I think I’ll hunt down some writing about using CSS this way and a resource that will be a good reference.
Little coding update! Completed the freeCodeCamp projects “Learn HTML by Building a Cat Photo App”, “Learn Basic CSS by Building a Cafe Menu.” This is all familiar stuff, but I always appreciate the reminder to use semantic tags like section & the refresh of how forms work.