January 2020

Gentle but not slight. Didn’t know how much I needed that right now. Extra points for the quick hit of what is probably the best bookbinding porn ever to grace a major motion picture.

Jeff Bezos’s net worth is nearly 1.2 million times the median US household’s. See how his expenses compare to yours. washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/…

Trying to use Avant Garde Gothic as a text face and it is putting up quite a fight.

“It’s impossible to know how many accused clergy members dioceses have opted not to put on their lists.” propublica.org/article/cathol…

Neil Peart, Sean Reinert, Reed Mullin. Valhalla is forming quite the percussion ensemble this month. 😞

If you know a better live band than the Sadies, you live a life of riches.

Philly’s biggest arthouse theater is closing and I’m not OK with it. inquirer.com/entertainment/…

truck arrives early
“Geotechnical Drilling”
POUND POUND POUND POUND POUND

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Indulging in a pricey collector’s item is a rare occasion for me, but this LeWitt work is an obsession of mine. cubes-revisited.art

Finally found a copy of the book from Sol LeWitt’s original 1974 Incomplete Open Cubes exhibition that cost less than my rent!

Hiring Ken Starr for impeachment defense is the 2020 version of inviting Bill Clinton’s accusers to the presidential debate in 2016.

Folks, @naconf is next week. It’s put on by some pretty great people. I can’t go, but if you can, you should. newadventuresconf.com/2020/

Just cooked up a little gist to make Liquid strftime month abbreviations play nice with AP style. gist.github.com/robweychert/7d…

AP style is particular about how dates are formatted in various circumstances. strftime uses %b for month abbreviations, but its format (the first three letters of the month: Jan, Feb, etc) differs from AP style’s preferred abbreviations for some months. This Liquid snippet converts strftime’s month abbreviations to AP style:

{{ object | date: '%b. %e, %Y' | replace: 'Mar.', 'March' | replace: 'Apr.', 'April' | replace: 'May.', 'May' | replace: 'Jun.', 'June' | replace:… See more →

It’s that time of year again. features.propublica.org/cabinet-cards/…

A great read from @frank_chimero on evaluating typefaces. frankchimero.com/blog/2020/look…

So many lovely little details on @destroytoday’s excellent new homepage! twitter.com/destroytoday/s…

Enumerating some of the structural challenges of the timeline section I have in mind for my site redesign: v7.robweychert.com/blog/2020/01/v…

Most of this redesign’s structural challenges pertain to the timeline section, previously described thusly:

• Timeline: The blog on the current version of my site, V6, collects most of what I’ve written for public consumption since 2001 across nearly 40 different sources. I’d like to expand that to include even more sources and content types, collecting virtually everything I’ve shared online in one sprawling, sortable/filterable timeline.

Since the projects section is a higher priority and the new… See more →

sports twitter < awards twitter < no twitter

Trying to nail all the drum fills at my desk as quietly as I can

RIP Neil Peart, the reason air drumming was invented. This sucks. Fuck cancer. 💔 rollingstone.com/music/music-ne…

There are many reasons I’m trying to become a homeowner this year, but it’s mostly so I never have to use one of these ever again.

A brief overview of my content priorities for my site redesign. v7.robweychert.com/blog/2020/01/v…

I added a tiny bit of CSS to aid readability by keeping line lengths in check on larger viewports:

body {
  margin: 0 auto;
  max-width: 75ch;
  padding: 1rem;
}

When calling the CSS file from the page head, I include a query string based on today’s date, which I’ll update when the CSS is updated. This will let updates get past the browser’s cache.

<link rel="stylesheet" href="/assets/css/main.css?20200108" />

Hopefully this small stylistic addition will keep things tidy enough until I properly begin the visual… See more →

More internet like this, please, and less of pretty much everything else. wh0.github.io/2020/01/02/sci…

turn off the golden globes and mope with me twitter v6.robweychert.com/blog/2020/01/s…

I’ve never liked Sunday. It’s the worst day of the week. It’s an imposter, shamelessly riding Saturday’s coattails, campaigning on the promise of freedom when it knows it will soon bring that freedom to an end. Saturday asks us what we want to be. Sunday tells us who we are.

Today is a Sunday. The first day of the first full week of the year. Renewal is meant to be in the air. The days… See more →

How I became so attached to the songs in this movie when it came out the same year I fell in love with thrash metal is anybody’s guess, but “Part of Your World” and “Poor Unfortunate Souls” are the bedrock of my karaoke game. Decades later, no other aspect of The Little Mermaid does much for me, although Scuttle is pretty delightful and Ursula is the shit. Can’t believe I only just learned that she… See more →

Apparently <meta name="viewport"> is still necessary. v7.robweychert.com/blog/2020/01/v…

The first thing I did when setting up this new version of my site was to put together some minimum viable HTML templates. Here’s the blog post template:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <title><!--POST TITLE--> | RobWeychert.com V7</title>
    <meta name="description" content="<!--POST DESCRIPTION-->" />
    <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RobWeychert.com V7" href="/index.rss"/>
  </head>

  <body>
    <… See more →

Oh yes indeed. robweychert.com twitter.com/destroytoday/s…

Kicking off 2020 by redesigning my site in public from the ground up and blogging every step of the process. v7.robweychert.com/blog/2020/01/v…

My 2019 in review: v6.robweychert.com/blog/2020/01/t…

My immune system didn’t do me many favors in 2019. I was sick on five or six separate occasions in the first half of the year, including an obnoxious bout of bronchitis that lasted the entire month of February. Luckily that didn’t stop me from having an adventurous and fulfilling year, and for the first time in my four years at ProPublica, I used every single one of my vacation days.

Projects

My first three… See more →

Welcome to RobWeychert.com V7! There are a number of new things I want to try with my site, from structure to aesthetics to code, and so it’s time to begin a fresh redesign. Inspired by my friends Jonnie and Frank, I’ve decided to do it in public from the ground up. I’m starting with bare-bones HTML and as the design process unfolds, each step will be reflected on the site in real time and documented… See more →