First weeknote

Weeknote #35.25, from August 25 to August 31.

Didn't know weeknotes were a thing and this might be a nice way to keep log of the stuff or highlights of each week.

Listening #

• Enjoying Deftones' private music, their just-released 10th album. I am not at all a follower of their music, but there's a handful of their songs that I really love. Their first single for this album, my mind is a mountain, immediately grabbed me so I was looking forward to this one, and it has delivered. Wall-of-sound with hypnotic and adventurous vocals.

Watching #

• Watched Thunderbolts* at home, on Disney+.

• Watched Novocaine at home, on Pathé Thuis.

• Started watching CITY The Animation thanks to Aftermath's recommendation and I was instantly charmed by its setting and characters, stunned by the brilliant animation, and in tears laughing at the absurdity of it all.
• Started watching Ghosts on Netflix.
• Watched this week's One Piece on Netflix.
• Watched this week's Alien: Earth on Disney+.

Playing #

I started leaning towards smaller, simpler games recently, so I decided to actually spend some proper time with my Playdate and found a couple of great games there!

• Started playing Pick Pack Pup. Enjoying the comics-style presentation, the music, and Pup!
• Started playing Ratcheteer. It's a low-fi 2D-Zelda-like, so I'm intrigued!
• Started playing Saturday Edition. Mysterious premise that hooked me from the start.

From UFO 50, I played a bunch of my favourites so far: Seaside Drive, Rail Heist, Velgress, Ninpek, and Magic Garden.

Moving #

I played Spikeball for the first time! It was very intense but super fun, even though we were all super beginners. Some of its rules are similar to Volleyball's so it was easy to get started.

Creating #

• At work I've been digging more and more into Web Components, which keeps me excited. Specially when used in combination with Server-side Rendering.
• At home I've been looking into creating a new library for defining simple, light-DOM based Custom Elements declaratively, via <template> elements, all inspired by SVG's <defs> and <use> elements.

OK this took longer than I expected. I probably won't add one of these for each week but I will try to keep it up. Or perhaps they won't all include so many things with as much details, I don't know.