Learning Log, Feb 2025
🧶 Crafting
- Closet Core T-Shirt: finally wrote a blog post for my first ever t-shirt, which I sewed in February!
- Finished knitting a Seattle Kraken beanie, which also needs a blog post.
- Started knitting my second pair of socks. This time I’m trying out colorwork on socks; I’ve learned the technique on clothing items that are more forgiving when it comes to fit and stretchiness (like the hat).
🧙🏻‍♀️ Side quests
- Went to San Diego for a work trip! I’ve only been there once before and I didn’t have great memories from the previous visit. I had received some heavy personal news while at a workshop / conference for a work community that was new to me at the time. It was a very lonely feeling. I’m glad to have made better memories this time around, connecting with my co-workers and bopping around town with my husband the following weekend.
- Visited La Jolla. One of my favorite parts of traveling is witnessing nature in different parts of the world, and this was no exception. I loved seeing all the harbor seal pups at the Children’s Pool Beach; the seals are so cute and funny when they flop themselves across the sand. Always a big fan of tide pools as well. I spotted Hartweg’s Chitons, Aggregating Anenomes, Black Tegulas, Periwinkles, Common Coralline, Giant Kelp, and some type of little hermit crabs.
🌱 Digital gardening
- Snacks site: added a couple new snacks for the first time since May.
- Making site: started listing hashtags for sewing patterns and materials in the blog post sidebar. My social media presence has contracted quite a bit, especially now that I am no longer on Instagram, where most of the sewists are. I figured I might as well make my blog posts findable to my people, in some small way.
🛜 On the internet
Awesome Standalones: a collection of framework-agnostic Web Components.
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Moving on From 18F.: if you read one link from this post, make it this one. A thoughtful and frankly inspiring account from Ethan on facing adversity with grace and integrity.
Product
How to Build Brand Awareness Through Product Impressions, Not Marketing
Accessibility
Global Digital Accessibility Salary Survey Results
Design & development
Color Theory & Palette – Resources and Tools
Personal growth
- What Is Your Work Now?
- How Meditation Deconstructs Your Mind
- The Imperfectionist: Reality Is Right Here
Other interesting articles
- North Dakota Woman Has Written in Her Diary Every Day for 90 Years
- Drawing Sessions Recap: The Stunning Art Our Customers Created in 2024
- This Note-Taking App Can Replace Four of the Most Popular Productivity Tools: I started playing around with Obsidian in February. There’s a Slack channel at my work for Obsidian enthusiasts, where a coworker shared this link.