Learning Log, Jun 2022
An explosion of green! A sketchbook page and some June-bearing strawberries in our garden that have mostly missed the boat on the whole “June” thing.
Netlify Launches
June was an absolutely jam-packed month! Mid-month I went to visit family around a certain 3-year-old’s birthday, then came back and launched two features with my team at Netlify (while also attending an offsite!). The lead-up to Unintentional Launch Week had me feeling a bit slammed, but it sure is a whole ton of fun shipping features that folks have been asking for! Maybe I should go for a hat-trick next time? 🏒
If you’d like to check out the newly available bits, they are:
- Deploy deletion controls + automatic cleanup of failed deploys
- Scopes and deploy contexts for environment variables (beta!)
Seasonal Cleaning
After I finish a side project, I like to do a bit of seasonal cleaning on Github, i.e. fixing bugs and making small improvements to past personal projects.
This month I:
- Added a record of older talks
- Added an RSS feed to my snack review site. Also added a couple reviews, while I was at it.
- Add a link to the existing RSS feed to my fiber crafts blog
- Made little layout tweaks on various projects
- Made various and sundry updates to Palindrome, my personal Eleventy starter template
Reading
Work and productivity
Art and creativity
- The simplest cut
- At This Once-Secret Exhibition, the Met’s Security Guards and Staff Display Their Own Art
- how to re-commit to your sketchbook. again.
Other interesting articles
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How Capicola Became Gabagool: The Italian New Jersey Accent, Explained
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I learned about rhubarb forcers via the Great Pottery Throwdown