From 8623a0910ef6b5d6db32da2b6d6e9e5aa5efa135 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Eisinger Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2024 15:07:10 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Start July Dispatch --- .../journal/dispatch-17-july-2024/index.md | 40 +++++++ static/archive/buttondown-email-hoyklb.txt | 106 ++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 146 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/journal/dispatch-17-july-2024/index.md create mode 100644 static/archive/buttondown-email-hoyklb.txt diff --git a/content/journal/dispatch-17-july-2024/index.md b/content/journal/dispatch-17-july-2024/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..49c0b51 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/journal/dispatch-17-july-2024/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +--- +title: "Dispatch #17 (July 2024)" +date: 2024-07-10T15:01:12-04:00 +draft: false +tags: +- dispatch +references: +- title: "Just DΓΌ It and The Legend of Link β€’ Buttondown" + url: https://buttondown.email/nathanlong/archive/just-du-it-and-the-legend-of-link/ + date: 2024-07-10T19:01:35Z + file: buttondown-email-hoyklb.txt +--- + +Some thoughts here... + + + +This month: + +* Adventure: +* Project: +* Skill: + +Reading: + +* Fiction: [_Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore_][1], Robin Sloan +* Non-fiction: [_Music Theory for Electronic Music Producers_][2], J. Anthony Allen + +[1]: https://bookshop.org/p/books/mr-penumbra-s-24-hour-bookstore-robin-sloan/15554054 +[2]: https://bookshop.org/p/books/music-theory-for-electronic-music-producers-the-producer-s-guide-to-harmony-chord-progressions-and-song-structure-in-the-midi-grid-j-anthony-allen/11905226?ean=9781727863024 + +Links: + +* [Title][3] +* [Title][4] +* [Title][5] + +[3]: https://example.com/ +[4]: https://example.com/ +[5]: https://example.com/ diff --git a/static/archive/buttondown-email-hoyklb.txt b/static/archive/buttondown-email-hoyklb.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f9faf87 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/archive/buttondown-email-hoyklb.txt @@ -0,0 +1,106 @@ +Net Noodlings with Nathan logo +[1] Net Noodlings with Nathan [2] +Subscribe +[3] +RSS +[4] +Archive +July 1, 2024 + +Just DΓΌ It and The Legend of Link + +Hey friends, + +How many ears does Captain Kirk have? + +Three. The left ear, the right ear, and the final front-ear. 🌌 + +━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ + +Thinking Too Hard + +This week, I've been thinking about specialist vs generalist skillsets. + +I started my career in the web industry as a hybrid designer-developer. I built +what I designed and covered everything from UX to Visual Design to Front-End +Development and even some server-side logic. I was able to stay on for the +complete lifecycle of a project. Yet because of how WIDE the responsibilities +were, it was hard to be GREAT at all parts. There was too much to cover! + +When I became a manager, it became clear that hiring generalists was even +harder. We decided to specialize and slice the design work from our team's +responsibilities. We had more work than we could handle and we needed ALL the +hands we could get. Specializing let us focus on being great at something and +more easily hire for the skills we needed. + +Fast-forward to now and we're slowly climbing out of a tech recession. Business +is slow. RIGHT NOW it's valuable to have a wide skillset because the shape of +the work is changing β€” a flexible skill set makes it easy to fit into different +resource-shaped roles on a project. + +So where does that leave us? + +David Eisinger, Development Director at Viget, gave us some timeless advice +recently. He shared this quote from Neal Stevenson in The Confusion: + + "Pay attention, that's all ... Notice things. Connect what you've noticed. + Connect it into a picture. Think of how the picture might be changed; and + act to change it. Some of your acts may turn our to have been foolish, but + others will reward you in surprising ways; and in the meantime, simply by + being active instead of passive, you have a kind of immunity that's hard to + explain." + +David's point was that: + + β€’ The most capable, most interesting, and smartest people: they want to know + EVERYTHING, and find ways to connect them... So keep your interests super + wide. + β€’ But be active. Even if it turns out not to be the right thing, doing + something is better than nothing. + +So cast wide, be active! [5]JUST DÜ IT! Even if the shape of the work changes, +if we're actively changing as well we'll be able to exist in those interesting +gaps! + +━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ + +Interesting Web Bits + + β€’ A coworker of mine surfaced [6]Motion One, (which has apparently been + around for awhile) but aims to be "the jQuery of WAAPI" (Web Animations + API). I found WAAPI to be promising, but a bit brittle still, so it'd be + interesting to peel this apart and find how they attempted to smooth over + the rough parts of the API. + β€’ After yeeeeeeears, [7]Zelda is finally getting her own game. (Although it + should be called the Legend of Link for consistency reasons! πŸ˜‚) + β€’ Hugo Landau talks about the [8]demise of of the mildly dynamic website. + β€’ If you're looking to pick up a hobby, you could try [9]typographic knitting + ... or you could just admire what RΓΌdiger SchlΓΆmer creates... + β€’ A really neat liquid physics demo [10]but with LAYERS! + β€’ If you didn't see it, Figma is releasing [11]a slides builder... but it's + not base functionality. Gotta pay, yo. + β€’ Remember Hypercards? No? (They were before my time too...) [12]But someone + built a hypercard simulator. + β€’ [13]Fun drawing physics simulator/game/thing. + +Don't miss what's next. 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