Learning Log, July 2026

👷‍♀ What I’ve been working on

• Sewed another Topstitch Essential Shirt
• Made peach ice cream (my second flavor!)
• Playing with gouache and acrylic markers

✍ Blog posts

• Mid-2026 (making) goals check-in
• Sketchbook Dump 001

🌱 Digital gardening

Added sharp to a couple projects, to resize blog post images via script (the most annoying part of writing a blog post IMO). This is one of those tasks that I have been meaning to get around to since Squoosh’s CLI was deprecated. If you notice the span of time between these two events, I think you’ll find that we don’t talk about Bruno. 🤫

🛜 On the open web

Accessibility

Building a General-Purpose Accessibility Agent—and What We Learned in the Process

Web

• I Stored a Website in a Favicon
• Meta’s Teen Safety Case Just Became a $1.4 Trillion Existential Threat (via Eric Bailey)

AI

• Etsy Is in Its Flop Era, and Sellers Are Fleeing
• The AI Productivity Paradox
• 55 Percent of Leaders Regret AI Layoffs—and a Major Hiring Reversal Has Begun (via Eric Bailey)

Journaling & stationery

• 10 Unusual Ways to Use the Empty Notebooks You Keep Buying
• 5 Art Journal Ideas That You Can Do in 10 Minutes
• Celebrate the Wins

Art

• A Shortage of Fun
• ‘Absurdist Basketmaker’ Lewis Prosser Weaves Contemporary Visions of Regional Heritage
• The Comforting Resurgence of ‘Grandma Hobbies’

Other interesting articles

• Tired of Spotify? Try Ballard Local’s Sea Lion Radio
• Japanese Parody Religion Exists Only to Give Believers a Reason to Say ‘No’ (via Eric Bailey)
• ‘We Genuinely Have Too Many Potatoes, I Cannot Stress Enough’: 42,000 Pounds of Free Taters Headed to Denver (via Eric Bailey)