RC Day 42 - Digital Toymaking

Alright. Making things. Writing things.

• This is dope: WebbCompare.
• Finally got back to some Svelte things. I revisited a couple of things I’d built in ObservableHQ and ported them to Svelte. A circular clock, and What hue of day is it? This definitely does not present as “serious UI work”, but actually, the “digital toymaking” I’m doing here is actually very learning dense. For instance, some Svelte things I encountered today:
  • one can’t attach styles to <svelte:body>, it’s just for event listening
  • one can’t inline js into a style block, even in a <svelte:head> element
  • a pattern for updating reactive variables on a timer
• I met one of my weekly goals by writing and publishing a small technical blog post: Default object parameters in TypeScript. I have so many half-drafted things — not all technical — and it is high time I put them into the world. I did not get hung up on writing and rewriting too much. I have a tendency to do so, and it results in fewer overall published things. Good writing is rewriting, and editing is essential, but my failure mode is over editing, not over-publishing. These daily logs have been good for building the word-shipping habit.
• Went to the RC learning generously event.
• Had a nice coffee chat, alas interrupted.

🧘🏻‍♂️ time.