week 03 of 2023

fonts, inputs, and colors.
2023
Published

January 22, 2023

week 3 of 2023

purple yellow world

i_m8_art creates cool vector art with lots of purples and yellows. i love the feeling of nostalgia in his work.

Started this neat things thing last week. Going to curate a list of the neat things I find over the course of a week and share it on the website. Hoping to build a habit of weekly reviews of what I did and what I learned. Building this gives me a chance to organize the randomness I find. Cool.

inspiration stuff

color stuff

  • Gradienmood lets you enter a prompt and it generates a css gradient for you. I need to add this to my web gradients collection.

open source icons and font stuff

I’m a huge fan of open source resources. Love the idea of people making stuff and sharing with the world. Stumbled upon a few new sources this week.

Speaking of fonts, House Industries type foundry has some amazing faces for a relatively affordable price.

The edge is in the inputs.

The person who consumes from better sources, gets better thoughts. The person who asks better questions, gets better answers. The person who builds better habits, gets better results.

It’s not the outcomes. It’s the inputs.

— James Clear

This resonated with me this week. Upgrade your inputs and that will help with your outputs. Reminds me of the opposite phrase from computer science: “garbage in, garbage out”. I’ve been trying to focus closer on what content I’m consuming and curating lately. Mostly, I’m trying to balance my time between developing and teaching classes and working on exploring content. Since my time is limited, I have to pay attention to my sources. Still figuring this out.

Finally, a big find for me personally: glasp is a browser plugin for highlighting and noting web content. Information is publicly shared in an online community. Can easily convert the highlights and notes into markdown for obsidian so I don’t necessarily need to capture full content from a website. I think this is going to be an interesting and productive step in my collection and curation process. Can’t wait to see how my own workflow changes with the addition of this tool.

Here is my public glasp. Not much there yet, of course, but expect it will be filling in quite a bit soon enough.