Screenshot of Visual Studio Code depicting source code that draws a pyramid of 10 blocks, stacked four rows high with debugging guidelines to verify alignment.
BUILD 18/30: Programatic Drawing of Word Counting Calendar Blocks
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/1106/
---
Today's progress on the 30 Day Build Challenge is using code to draw a "Pyramid Block" for the Word Counting Calendar! Getting closer!
06.11.2025 23:14 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
A sketch of a stroked box with dimension information in points beside it.
BUILD 17/30: A PDF-LIB Reference
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/1105/
---
Today's sharepiece is the start of a PDF-LIB API cheatsheet. Info is reorganized into functional groups instead of a useless alphabetical listing.
06.11.2025 05:05 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Several kinds of gourmet donuts on individual cake trays, a delicious variety of filled donuts, crullers, and cronuts.
Skip Day Blog Post! Doctor Visits and Voting
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/1104/
---
A daytrip to Concord, followed by voting in the midterms and a reward meal. No energy left, so I'm declaring today a SKIP DAY of blogging instead of building.
05.11.2025 02:34 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
A scene from K-Pop Demon Hunters with the three main characters Mira, Rumi, and Zoey about to face down the final boss of the demon world, united in friendship and accepting of their imperfections.
BUILD 16/30: Articulating Friendship
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/1103/
---
I wrote a working definition of friendship, as I understand it, after being inspired by K-Pop Demon Hunters this weekend.
04.11.2025 03:57 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Adobe Acrobat interface displaying a very simple PDF with text 'FORM.WCC-01' and copyright information drawn inside light blue page margin
BUILD 15/30: Super Simple PDF Progress
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/1031/
---
I'm not feeling well today, so I just ported the minimum PDF page generation code to refamiliarize myself with pdf-lib. Notes follow.
31.10.2025 20:51 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Title image showing calendar layout sketch for checkboxes, progress cards, and handwritten layout notes for parameter sizing and field types.
BUILD 14/30: Calendar Layout Code Progress
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/1030/
---
Working on the Word Counting Calendar layout code. Slow going! I share the drawing code parameterization process.
31.10.2025 03:08 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The November 2025 word counting calendar has places for filling in daily and weekly word counts, making it easy to gauge pacing of your writing.
Build 13/30: Word Counting Calendar Interim Release
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/1029/
---
I posted the interim Word Counting Calendar for November so writers had something to use while I get my software moving. It's going slowly.
30.10.2025 16:14 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The 2025 Word Counting Calendar for November! Track 50,000 words over 30 days using visual graphing day-by-day with weekly counts to see how far ahead/behind you are
Still making Word Counting Calendars for Novel Writing Months!
davidseah.com/node/nanowri...
29.10.2025 21:16 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
screenshot of code generating calendars and pdfs
Build 12/30: Word Counting Calendar Reboot
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/1028/
---
The old NaNoWriMo org is dead, but there's still demand for Word Counting Calendars! I made a placeholder pdf, and will write software to generate them for the rest of this week.
28.10.2025 20:06 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Photo of computer screen with magnified designs of personal calling cards
Build 11/30: Unprofessional Business Cards
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/1027/
---
Rather than make a business card with my title and areas of expertise, I wanted something that conveyed what interactions I warm up to.
27.10.2025 19:29 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
title picture depicts a scanner being fed with a paper sketch depicting a complicated process diagram
Build 10/30: A Silly Pass at Logo Design
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/1024/
---
An logo design experiment for farmer's market vendor who needs a business card. We start with some associative questions, and look for the silly parts.
24.10.2025 19:29 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Title photo shows a closeup of a test sheet used to calibrate the Heidelberg Offset Press
Build 09/30: ETP Mini Notebook Printing Press Tour
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/1023/
---
I check on the progress of The ETP 5885 Mini Notebook at the local commercial printer that makes them. This production run will be the last on Amazon Marketplace.
23.10.2025 19:51 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
A table showing a refined version of the Activity Bingo Board. It has 5 rows ranked from D to S and 6 columns across forming a grid of colored blocks with the names of activities in them.
Build 08/30: Activity Bingo Form Progress (part 2)
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/1022/
---
I took the last revision of the "activity bingo board" and adjusted it to fit within A4 width, then normalized type sizes and dimensions. I also added C-rank quests.
22.10.2025 20:16 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Screenshot of Affinity Designer editing the Mini ETP Front Sheet insert for packaging.
Build 07/30: Restart ETP Notebooks Production
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/1021/
---
I have the final run of 1000 ETP Mini Notebooks in production, but the front cover insert needed name and link updates. Tried Affinity Designer for press-ready work for the first time.
21.10.2025 22:53 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
A computer monitor displaying a colorful grid of options for an Activity Bingo Board design, inside of Affinity Designer
Build 06/30: Workshopping the 'Activity Bingo' Form (part 1)
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/1020/
---
I'm focusing on creating new design work this week, testing Affinity Design as a replacement for Adobe Illustrator. In Part 1, I work through what an "Activity Bingo [...]
21.10.2025 03:34 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Productivity Energy Crash: A dark gray forboding sky
Build 05/30: Productivity Energy Crash Day
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/1017/
---
Today's sharepiece details an unexpected energy crash after four good days of productivity. Was it ADHD? Lack of sleep? Or did I just overdo it?
18.10.2025 00:06 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
3 columns of web pages showing blog posts, demonstrating how an XML feed can be styled in the browser by XSL.
Build 04/30: Eleventy Templates for Atom Feeds
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/1016/
---
I wanted my autoposts to Mastodon and Bluesky to have a single image, not all the images. Today's sharepiece is the Eleventy code I hacked up with a nice XSL stylesheet.
17.10.2025 03:22 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Build 03/30: Reviewing Old Work and Stories
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/1015/
---
Restarting my design business means new business cards and a logo. I have a good idea what's important to me NOW, but it's very different from my PAST identity work. I review old work to look [...]
16.10.2025 03:19 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Day 3 of a push to reboot my design practice by making crap! Iβm going to shift from voice to visual design today. After fixing stupid encoding issues in my site feed output.
15.10.2025 12:03 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
screenshot of Eleventy template and TypeScript source resulting in rendered page
Eleventy html template, showing markdown and html script tags
TypeScripts source file to be run by the Eleventy html template
Page on dsriseah.com showing the script in day02.ts running inside of day02.html template
Build 02/30: TypeScript Mini Apps in Eleventy
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/1014/
---
I added "mini web app" functionality for my Eleventy template pages. I can create individual Typescript source files inside a project directory that works with live-reloading.
15.10.2025 04:41 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
screenshot of terminal output and github repo
Build 01/30: A Web App Template
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/1013/
---
I'm starting a 30 Day Building Challenge to build and share something every day to help get my design business restarted. I'm not exactly sure what the business will look like, but today's exploration [...]
14.10.2025 05:02 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
A diagram of category boxes covering software, infrastructure, and personal project interests.
A fanciful diagram showing how my motivation to do tasks are intertwined with my emotional core.
Making Operational Diagrams for Motivation
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/1006/
---
This month I have been rebooting my 2010-era design practice, and there's many moving parts. I've been making a set of maps to help me visualize tasks with my current understanding of The Sri [...]
06.10.2025 21:00 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
a pepperoni and cheese pizza from Funspot
Bad Habits that Undermine My Productivity
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/0930/
---
I have been feeling icky and lethargic for weeks, and finally realized it might be based on my eating habits. Here's what I've been doing to test whether this is true. ⊕caption A gooey [...]
01.10.2025 17:46 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Color-coded boxes labeled by project. See the Whimsical document linked in the caption for the text.
A Bingo Board for Task Focusing
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/0922/
---
I have created an Activity Bingo Board to accompany the Master Planning Collage from last month's GHDR Progress Report. The board is intended to serve as visual reminder of what kind of stuff I ought to [...]
22.09.2025 22:55 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Side-by-side screenshots of Powerpoint and Inkscape, showing simple resume layout
Sharepiece 5/5: Resume Layout Hacks
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/0919/
---
⊕caption I hated every minute of using these programs, but it's possible to use these in a pinch. But really, you probably should use Canva or something newer. Today's sharepiece is an [...]
19.09.2025 22:36 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Emergent Task Timer Pro 6-minute version
Sharepiece 4/5: Emergent Task Timer for Lawyers
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/0918/
---
Today's sharepiece is a refresh of the 6-minute increment version of the Emergent Task Timer which helps see where your time is going throughout the day. It was mentioned by Chris [...]
19.09.2025 05:14 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Screenshot of Reason 12
Sharepiece 3/5: Making a Clonk Sound
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/0917/
---
Today I tried to export a sound from Reason 12 . I have no idea how to create music with it, nor how to use its many synthesis and filtering modules. I had previously only used it to record podcasts [...]
18.09.2025 04:26 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
a pixelated dancing or angry crab
Screenshot of GIMP, showing CROP TO CONTENT command
Screenshot of GIMP, showing use of select tool to determine dimensions
Screenshot of GIMP, showing resizing of canvas to multiple of 8 pixels
Sharepiece 2/5: Resizing a Crab
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/0916/
---
There is an animated pixel crab I'm very fond of and would like to use as a Discord Emoji, but it's too small. Here are my notes using GIMP for the first time in years to try resizing it.
16.09.2025 18:26 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
several crude sketches of cats
Daily Sharepiece 1/5: Trying to Draw Cats
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/0915/
---
We've started a trial "5 Day Sharepiece Challenge" in the DSCAFE Discord, where I and others are posting "something small yet tangible" we made. The idea behind this is to [...]
15.09.2025 21:14 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Daily Sharepiece: Eleventy CLI Proof-of-Concept
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/0913/
---
For Saturday's Sharepiece, I made a proof-of-concept tool for my Eleventy -based PKMS, which is what runs dsriseah.com . I already have a command line utility that creates/modifies the [...]
14.09.2025 05:15 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Cartoonist, Writer, and all-around layabout. Never had a real job except for quomodocunquize. He/him
He/They, mid-30s, polyam, trekker, VR enthusiast, Software Engineer, amateur storyteller
Website: https://lunarcloud.github.io/
Games: https://samsarette.itch.io/
Code: https://github.com/lunarcloud/
πΈ Headshotβ’Musicβ’Commercial Portraitsβ’Toy Photography π·
est. 2004
Digitalβ’Filmβ’Polaroidβ’Puppetsβ’Toys
Explaining algorithms with interactive diagrams
I hope you smile today πββ¬π€
My links: https://linktr.ee/Purrinink
Maps, open data, open source. Formerly @ Mapbox, Development Seed
cofounder @opalstack.com β’ husband β’ #sunset hoarder β’ #barbedwire artist β’ terrible #musician β’ #genx #liberal #atheist #veteran β’ #Louisianan by birth β’ #NewMexican by choice β’ he/him
Delighted nihilist. Nerdy actor-artist. Human plant.
https://linktr.ee/fernlimyay
@cstarrett most places. better.boston/@cstarrett on Mastadon. Facilitating leadership and well-being at work @ SoulCo. Practicing the Art of Possibility. He/Him. Former home dad, Harvard & NECmusic alum, νκ΅μ΄ appreciator, Theory U, electronic music; TTRPGs
Printmaker and fiber artist in Iowa
Administrator, IT tinkerer, and (former?) stage manager in Tkaronto
ππ» | ππ»ββοΈπ² | πποΈπΆ
Curator of the art, history and fiction of old dreams.
I write about humans, tech, and culture, and about what I learned working for Slack, Spotify, and Instagram. But youβre probably here for photos of my cat Lumpy.
You should go read my newsletter at www.leahreich.com
Learning Sciences PhD β¨ studier + designer of body-inclusive & dignity-affirming embodiment in learning β¨ maybe hire me? π | morganavickery.com
'Peddler of Wheres,' job creator, Owner at The Map Center in Pawtucket RI- it's like a hip record store but for maps.
www.mapcenter.com
Cartographer, GIS specialist and educator
Linktr.ee/ecoandrewtrc