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1 --- 2 title: "Dispatch #3 (May 2023)" 3 date: 2023-04-30T23:00:00-04:00 4 draft: false 5 tags: 6 - dispatch 7 references: 8 - title: "Some Favorite Reads From 2022 • by Kyle Aster" 9 url: https://warpspire.com/posts/some-favorite-reads-2022 10 date: 2023-04-30T18:47:22Z 11 file: warpspire-com-bhv7lv.txt 12 - title: "Simple Commit Linting for Issue Number in GitHub Actions | Viget" 13 url: https://www.viget.com/articles/simple-commit-linting-for-issue-number-in-github-actions/ 14 date: 2023-04-30T18:47:23Z 15 file: www-viget-com-biybeb.txt 16 - title: "What Do You Want to Make Real in the World? — Anna Havron" 17 url: https://www.annahavron.com/blog/what-do-you-want-to-make-real-in-the-world 18 date: 2023-04-30T03:38:36Z 19 file: www-annahavron-com-34fw9w.txt 20 - title: "A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden" 21 url: https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history 22 date: 2023-04-30T18:47:58Z 23 file: maggieappleton-com-n6xsqa.txt 24 --- 25 26 Another month in the books. Man, year's flying by. We filled it up though: went down to the lake for Easter weekend, took the kayaks out on the Catawba. Claire went out to California to visit a friend, so I got to spend a lot of one-on-one time with Nev and made a big dent in the closet project. The first unit is done and installed. Claire seems really happy with it. The second unit should go a lot quicker since most of the thought work is done. 27 28 <!--more--> 29 30 {{<dither IMG_3656.jpeg "374x600">}}Kayaking down a sunlit river, paddles slicing through ripples beneath a clear blue sky.{{</dither>}} 31 {{<dither IMG_3763.jpeg "374x600">}}Makeshift lemonade stand takes shape in a cluttered garage workshop.{{</dither>}} 32 {{<dither IMG_3816.jpeg "374x600">}}Light spills into a closet corner where a wooden three-drawer dresser sits beneath hanging clothes, topped by an overflowing white laundry basket.{{</dither>}} 33 {{<dither IMG_3815.jpeg "374x600">}}Jury-rigged closet shelf with raw lumber and metal braces perched above a row of neatly hung shirts.{{</dither>}} 34 35 I ordered Claire an [e-bike][1] thinking it might arrive before her birthday mid-May, but it showed up just a few days later. It's been a blast taking Nevie to the museum and around town. We also ran the Tar Heel 10 Miler last weekend. Super fun, and I did better than I expected to based on my training ([result][2], [certificate][3]) -- there's something about an organized race that just gives that extra push I guess. 36 37 [1]: https://www.aventon.com/products/pace500-3-step-through-ebike 38 [2]: /journal/dispatch-3-may-2023/10_miler_results.pdf 39 [3]: /journal/dispatch-3-may-2023/10_miler_certificate.png 40 41 ### This Month 42 43 * Adventure: do some non-electric biking ("acoustic biking" as it were), ideally after getting a rack installed on the car 44 * Project: finish this closet off 45 * Skill: gonna say learning Golang again, though the fact that I'm struggling to pick a project makes me think my interest is more theoretical than practical 46 47 ### Reading 48 49 * Fiction: [_Long Shadows_][4], David Baldacci 50 * Non-fiction: [_Building a Second Brain_][5], Tiago Forte 51 * _Looks like the author did a [podcast][6] I should check out_ 52 53 [4]: https://bookshop.org/p/books/long-shadows-david-baldacci/18261851?ean=9781538719824 54 [5]: https://bookshop.org/p/books/building-a-second-brain-a-proven-method-to-organize-your-digital-life-and-unlock-your-creative-potential-tiago-forte/18265370?ean=9781982167387 55 [6]: https://www.artofmanliness.com/character/advice/podcast-816-building-a-second-brain/ 56 57 ### Links 58 59 * [_This Is How You Lose The Time War_][7] -- just _fantastic_ little book I read this month. Hard to describe, but highly recommended. [Originally recommended here.][8] 60 * [Simple Commit Linting for Issue Number in GitHub Actions][9] -- short post on my company blog about two topics dear to me: continuous integration and information retrieval. 61 * [What Do You Want to Make Real in the World?][10] 62 * [A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden][11] 63 64 [7]: https://bookshop.org/p/books/this-is-how-you-lose-the-time-war-amal-el-mohtar/18270911 65 [8]: https://warpspire.com/posts/some-favorite-reads-2022 66 [9]: https://www.viget.com/articles/simple-commit-linting-for-issue-number-in-github-actions/ 67 [10]: https://www.annahavron.com/blog/what-do-you-want-to-make-real-in-the-world 68 [11]: https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history