12 days since the robots descended on my site workflow. Five of those I was crazy sick, so I guess thats 7 days. Craig David. It still blows my mind that Craig lived in Heathrow T5 for years. Look it up.
Jumping to the end, I’m getting kinda worried that my silly list of ideas I’ve had knocking around for years is gunna dry up pretty quick. I have faith though. Faith that I can always produce more silly ideas and that only my appetite to spar with an agent on them is at risk.
Stuff Made
- Project bundling. This allows one page HTML projects to be packaged into the site header and footer. It helps keep a handle on navigation and presentation. Great for quick agent ideas.
- New header, navigation and footer. I’m not 100% on these all yet, still refining in Figma now and then, but its a vast improvement on what was there. I made micro tweaks to Bebas Neue for the site logo, the “A” crossbar has a 18º angle, this angle is then paired in the bottom of the bowl in the “R” next to it.
- Photos open in a lightbox modal, swipes on mobile too. Extras including, keyboard controls. Metadata, deeplinks and cleaner arrow placement to come. Oh, and I removed the waffle about deplatforming off Insta
- Page and post lists reformatted, image hover preview added. I’m trying to keep that balance of minimalism here. I enjoy stripping back the bias distraction of meta image previews so the eyes focus on the words first.
- Internet bookmarks launched. They have their own page and a recent module on the /about page. Populated by a custom browser extension, bookmarks are also sent to a Notion database at the same time.
- Recently listened music launched. Last.fm integration that write to a new music table in the database so I have my data, allowing me to do data visualisation later on.
- Recently watched launched. Manual population with custom fields for now. Although that did spark the thought that I need to combine my extensions into one, reduce the need for context switching. The dream would be TV scrobbling, or perhaps not considering some of the trash I can end up watching.
- Wider image layout fixed.
- Image scrapbook launched. ~15 years archive of my image bookmarking from Tumblr et al. is now on its own page, again with a custom extension to manage grabbing of new images. This one felt really good to get back online, that sweet spot of dusting off an archive, decomissioning a paid service (Dropmark) and being in control of the data and UX.
- Changelog launched. As part of the devops workflow the agent manages, I get a simplified log update every time I push to prod. Nice.
I’m really chuffed with all that. Theres a lot of room for refinement as I use the features and test the content layouts of the page. For example, the /about page needs a big content session and that may well generate better versions of the music, media, bookmarks and scrapbook summary modules.
Other Stuff
I had the second worst (since my records began eight years ago) diverticular flareup. Immobilising me for four days, it was intense. Friday was my first normal day where my body and brain were finally back online. Just when you think you’re doing an OK job of eating the right stuff at least once a day. So, I’m back to stricter regs on everything.
Pulled down a wardrobe with Joel.
Working on a redesign of an B2B IT ops dashboard using mostly Codex and Figma.
Triple garden window nature day! A slug, a bug and a fox.