Learning Log, June 2026

👷‍♀ What I’ve been working on

• Following along with Scribble Brigade workshops from Sophie McPike
• Changed out my key caps for the first time and learned how to mount Costar stabilizers
• Participated in another Urban Sketchers outing, the Greenwood car show
• Completed my first crochet project

🌱 Digital gardening

Making blog: the logic for showing project details in the sidebar was a little fragile, so I made that more robust.

🧙🏻‍♀️ Side quests

• Visited my side of the family. Baby S got to meet her cousins!
• Traveled to Denver for a quick road trip, my first visit to Colorado
• Made my first batch of ice cream with the Madagascar vanilla beans a co-worker sent me 💙
• Went on a lunch date with my husband on our day off, while the baby was at daycare
• Planted the dahlia bulbs a green-thumb friend gave us

🛜 On the open web

Web

• I Want My Friends to Have Blogs Too (via Eric Bailey)
• The Web Is for People

AI

• The Trump Administration Is at War With Itself Over AI Regulation
• A German Court Has Ruled That Google Is Liable for False Statements Generated by AI Overviews

Journaling & stationery

My Solution to the “I’m Dead, What Happens to My Journals?” Question

Art

• Bespoke Glass Studio’s Sculptures Challenge Traditional Conventions of Stained Glass: wishing I had stained-glass money
• Elaborate Kené Patterns by Sara Flores Continue an Ancient Indigenous Tradition

Other interesting articles

‘Running Out of Money’: Kraft, McDonald’s, Whirlpool CEOs All Issue Same Dire Warning About US Consumers. Get Ready Now (via Eric Bailey)