Hey there! I hope everyone has had a great past six months. Life comes at you fast and when the weather got warm I found it harder to keep the routine of writing every week. It’s getting cold again, I’m back in my coffee shop, and will still be aspirationally calling this series “weekly” to try and keep myself motivated to write.
Anyways, I’ve got less than I expected saved up in my Pinboard, but it’s enough for a Weekly, so let’s get to it!
May the Fourth be with you! It’s been a while again, but I’m here with some more links, and also a bit of a longer reflection to start off the Weekly today.
I spent a week in Mexico City last month. In the morning I would walk around Roma Norte, the neighborhood I was staying in, looking for an espresso to start my day. At one point I found a coffee shop that just really spoke to me: I walked in, smiled, and was excited to order. Stepping back and looking around, I could only think of this snippet from Ezra Klein’s interview with Kyle Chayka that I linked to back in January:
Happy Saturday! It’s April, I just finished doing my taxes, and I’m excited to share some links with you all this week :)
Hello again! It’s been too long since I’ve published a newsletter. Routines are hard to build, but I do still want to try to make writing a weekly habit of mine.
Apologies for the delayed weekly this week — it may be Tuesday, but it’s still the same content you’ve come to appreciate and expect!
It’s a snowy day in New York City! Nice day to post up in a warm and cozy café to watch it all go by.
I spent some time over the past week tweaking and improving this site. Not all the changes are live yet, but every post now has an OpenGraph preview image to go along with it. I got a lot of guidance from Arne Bahlo’s post on how to generate SVGs in Astro and a lot of inspiration from Jacob Kaplan-Moss’s preview images.
I find frontend development to be a creative outlet where I can still write code without feeling like I’m doing something too similar to my day job. I’ve had fun thinking critically about my design inspirations and trying to build something that feels like an authentic expression of how I want to present myself on the Internet.
Without further ado, on to the links!
Happy February! I had a high school teacher of mine call month #2 the F-month: a month so terrible it wasn’t even worth naming. While February does tend to be the coldest month here in New York, there’s still plenty to take advantage of — It’s always easier to find tables at my favorite bars when the weather’s bad outside :)
