Jeremy Friesen @takeonrules@tabletop.social

Sitting in my backyard. Spotted a bluebird, tried to record it's song. Alas it flew away. The Robin's, song sparrows, redwing blackbirds, meadowlark, and tree swallows all keep me company.

Something I sent to my project manager: "You know how everyone knows a guy who will like “fix and tinker with anything”. The one that shows up for a Craigslist ad to pick up free animal stained carpet? They’ve got tools and lots of wires, tubes, nuts, and bolts lying around. Imagine if you had that guy make a house for which no home inspection were required. And then they lived in it for a few years with the roosters and aging hens they picked up on Craigslist. That's the code base I inherited."

Free Time During a Pandemic // Take on Rules

I'm playing “Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild”, contributing to https://samvera.org, reading Italo Calvino's “Italian Folktales”, journaling, and playing “Lost Ship” by W.M. Akers.

https://takeonrules.com/2020/04/04/free-time-during-a-pandemic/

#blogging #notquitegaming #personal #reading #sologaming

@kensanata Are you still collecting bird songs? I have a 30 second recording, and panoramic photo of their habitat.

If you are still collecting, what is your preferred method (and format) for me to send you these artifacts.

When your local bandwidth drops to 60 Kbps or less, only then will you fully understand the hate that javascript-first websites deserve. Also, review your caching policies please.

#javascript #lowbandwidth #progressenhancements

Spent a bit of time thinking/writing through the semantics of my website. Based on my emerging understanding:

1) Breadcrumb NAV element does not belong within an ARTICLE. The breadcrumb shows how you got here and is not relevant to the context of an ARTICLE

2) NEXT and PREV role elements do not belong in an ARTICLE. They are an external context.

3) Metadata about the article (e.g. its tags) may require a separate SECTION. I had thought of it as an ASIDE, but am reconsidering. Maybe FOOTER?

My partner is a small business owner (https://soapygnome.com). She's nervous not for the business but the people we employ (5 part-time employees). We've been transparent with our available funds and the timeline we can weather. Some employees have offered to stop working so others needing the paycheck can keep working. We have projects that they can do remote or on-site.

Spent some time working on my Atom.io environment. This is a fork of a fork for Ruby and Markdown highlighting: https://github.com/jeremyf/vibrant-ink-ruby

“It’s not your system, it’s your workflow” these workflows encode your system’s values. Remember “optimize” and “efficient” are super loaded terms. Typically these optimizations and efficiencies are for the system, which perpetuates the power of the status quo.

For future reading: https://des4div.library.northeastern.edu/

Today I learned about Stanford Library's usage of Architectural Decision Records - https://adr.github.io/ for background and their repository: https://sul-dlss-labs.github.io/infrastructure-adrs/records/0000/

For one of our large projects, instead of writing code, I'm providing organizational leadership and strategy. The developer team is actively coding in GatsbyJS and I'm looking at my personal site (https://takeonrules.com) and wondering if I should attempt a thought experiment of migrating from Hugo to GatsbyJS. The curse of hobby as work as hobby.

#gatsbyjs #hugo #foss #blogging

Today, I extracted a code from a community project I work on. The current function of the code is to push out files to all repositories in a Github organization (or organizations).

https://github.com/samvera-labs/huborg

A suitcase full of books: Kafka, Camus, Achebe, Ibn Battuta, Calvino, Cervantes, Moller, Eco, Mosley, and Manguel.

That feeling when you checkout a library book, start reading it, and have a burning desire to annotate the book and underline numerous passages. I'd imagine there's a word for this in some language.

Best thing I've done for my website recently: implemented a bit of javascript. When you type <ctrl+s> it will toggle off or one the stylesheet.

Looking at my website without stylesheets has given lots of insight into the semantic markup which in turn helps with accessibility.

One thing that I know I need to do is go back and add ALT tags to images. I have some but not reliably. And in cases where there isn't an ALT tag, determine if it should be ARIA hidden.