Weeknotes 2

This week’s been calm, rainy and cold. New projects are on the way, and I’m excited. Also trying to cut down on coffee and cigarettes — it’s hard, but it has to be done.

Nicki doing nothing

This post has a little color system of its own. I can set 4 colors for each post (if I want) and just swap the CSS variable values.

Frontmatter:

colors:
  backgroundColor: "106, 76%, 3%"
  textColor: "146, 24%, 70%"
  linkColor: "31, 78%, 54%"
  headingColor: "0, 69%, 58%"

CSS:

:root {
    --backgroundColor: ${backgroundColor};
    --textColor: ${textColor};
    --linkColor: ${linkColor};
    --headingColor: ${headingColor};
  }

I think this adds personality to the post, and I can have fun experimenting with colors. I hope you enjoy it!

Little Wins

Viewport UI — a project by me and Eryc — was featured in the sidebar.io newsletter. Feels so good when a side project gets some love. We’re also working on a new Astro layout to make it smoother and shinier.

Listening

Lately, I’ve been listening to a lot of Nu Metal, including Mudvayne, Static X, and especially Deftones - private music album.

Through youtube shorts, I discovered this song by Pantera. I’m not a big fan of Pantera, but this track has one of the most beautiful solos I’ve ever heard. It starts at 3:35.

Reading

Slowly flipping through Tales from the Loop by Simon Stålenhag, one of my favorite artists. He mixes retro sci-fi with countryside vibes, which somehow feels nostalgic even if you’ve never lived in the Swedish countryside (or the ‘80s).Tales from the Loop is amazing — go check it out.

Games

Still stuck on Scum but I want to try the new No Man’s Sky Voyagers update. I have about 300 games in my library, but I always end up playing the same ones.

Scum vibes only

From my Read Later folder

• Interface;
• Font formats explained;
• Doing (and Direction) Great Design Requires Detail Obsession;
• Why designing terrible solutions makes you a better designer;
• Areal — New are.na typeface.

Thanks for reading, and as always, you can ping me on x.