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12 pull-ups.

I only went outside to take the guy to school and to grill. It’s incredibly nice out, so I feel a little regret.

Karina Puente has illustrated 27 of Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities so far. These drawings are fantastic.

She made a mistake by creating actual art, though, instead of just creating NFTs for each of the Invisible Cities.

There were some intense headgear situations in the Sun Ra Arkestra:

Sun Ra was going through a change: we started jumping around…not like jumping jacks, straight up and down; and it had to be in a specific place. …It seemed to have a special significance for Sun Ra. We started wearing beanies with propellers that lit up. Sun Ra wore a space hat with a light on it. .And [we were] marching and dancing through the audience—a kind of cosmic ring shout

There’s more hat gatekeeping than you might think:

It was at this club that Sonny’s band began to wear a variety of uniforms, including one with green sport shirts, rust-colored pants, and red fezzes such as were worn by black religious sects like the Moors, and even briefly by the Nation of Islam. This was the uniform they were wearing one night at the club when three men stood in the back watch-
ing the band closely; at the break they walked up to the bandstand and,
without identifying themselves, warned them to never wear the fezzes again.

35-minute run, 12 pull-ups. It’s nice out!

I tried to complete a “feature” and was resolved not to go to bed until it was working…until now, at which point I have changed that resolution!

Horndal plays some Google-inspired metal:

In late 2017, Google announced that they’d purchased 109 hectares of land in Horndal for use as a potential data center. “At first we thought, fuck, now the city’s gonna flourish, it doesn’t fit our story anymore,” Levahn says with a laugh. But he soon realized that this wasn’t 100% good news. “As we realized when we heard about their plans, when you’re building this big server hall, you have to use water to cool the servers, because they get very hot. And they wanted to use our lake, Rossen, to cool the servers with. That’s why [the new album is] called LAKE DRINKER—it’s a new devil in town, you know?”

“Rossen” is the first track on LAKE DRINKER; another is called “Kalhygget,” the Swedish word for clear-cutting. Although Google’s proposed server farm remains unbuilt, the proposed location has already been deforested. “What they’ve done is they’ve created this enormous empty space – cut down all the trees, so there’s a big empty space with nothing on it. And it’s actually not decided whether they’re gonna build this thing or not. They cut the trees down anyway.”

They sound like later Entombed, maybe around the Uprising era, with a few very Slayer riffs in there, which, of course, 60% of all death metal-adjacent band have.

I did 10 burpees, 4x5 very light deadlifts, 12 pull-ups. I am hesitant to do the deadlifts because I’m often not careful enough with them, but I do need to do some leg strengthening for the sake of my knees.

I guess I can go find the dumbbells, actually. Or try the kettlebells, which I never got used to.

I started trying to genericize the set up of certain interconnected components this week. That has lead me to code like this:
var {
collectionStore,
itemStores,
} = assembleSubMachine({
parentStore: activeDeckIdentifier,
CollectionPersister: () => IdsPersister(deckIdsKey),
kind: 'deck',
createNewThing: createNewDeck,
RenderCollection: RenderDeckCollection,
RenderItem: RenderDeck,
ItemChangeResponder: OnDeckChange,
itemRehydrate: RehydrateDeck(thingPersister),
});

It still doesn't quite work. I have to further genericize more stuff for this to work for more than one set of components. And exactly what is that going to mean to me months later? And how applicable will my current genericization be at that point?

I started down this path because I didn't want to duplicate code between setups. It occurs to me now that it's better to either live with that or to write helper functions for parts of the setups. It will allow flexibility in setups and also be readable, or at least as readable as any of my functions are.

This is a lot easier with just one person involved. I've been in this situation before, and sometimes, the case for abandoning or redoing something has a lot more momentum to defeat when other people are invested.

Impossible Meat tacos are really good. 100% as good as ground beef tacos, FWIW.

Five-mile run, 12 pull-ups. It’s warm out; would like it to not get warmer than this.

I did this , "small" refactor, which of course took hours, during which I couldn't run anything. In some ways, it was mundane and largely renaming. But it took so long that when I was done, I was afraid to load the app. Everything still worked when I did.

I'm relieved. I should use this momentum until bedtime, but I'm going to let myself savor this and do something else for tonight.

Every once in a while, it's easier to just make a tool instead of searching for one you know exists out there somewhere. I'm generating gigantic program diagrams lately, so I needed something to pan and zoom around large SVGs. So, I hacked an old project into SVGBrowse.

~10-minute run, 12 pull-ups. ✓

We watched the I’ve Got Batman in My Basement episode of Batman: The Animated Series. It’s about some kids who stumble on Batman getting sprayed by a debilitating gas by the Penguin, then keeping him safe as best they can. It seemed not too far away from the Magic Treehouse books series that the guy is into.

I thought it was a safe choice, but it was more intense than I expected for the guy, while still being a good experience. There’s not much violence, aside from Batman throwing some goons and kicking the Penguin, but I forgot that kids aren’t inured to suspense like I am. He really tensed up when the goons were chasing the goons. The possibility of them catching the kids was a real possibility to him, not being familiar with the melodrama of Batman and superhero stories in general.

He did want to see more, but I guess I’ll have to manually prescreen the candidates. Which I don’t mind doing.

34-minute run with a long pause in the beginning to go to the post office, 12 pull-ups.