Hello world! Let’s dive straight into the week that was!

• Take my money: Robb Knight is selling TRAINING DATA stickers and they are awesome.
  • While scrolling through Robb’s site, I found a cool alternative to metatags.io – Lens. Lens also displays rel-me data so I can use Lens to do what metatags.io and the rel="me" validator do.
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  • This post resonated a lot with me and reminds me of the “You Need a Hacking Night” article in the current issue of 2600. There is something to be said for the way that in-person collaboration can impact how we collaborate and opens the door for creative approaches.
• Search your tabs, bookmarks and history in the Chrome address bar
  • This is nice for focusing a search on one of these areas – especially if you’re getting too many results.
• ohyaml.wtf
  • A test where knowing about The Norway Problem will definitely come in handy.
• Think less, ship more feels like I wrote it! Very relatable.

🔖 On having a “first team”

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The article I found myself thinking about and sharing most frequently this week was Will Larson’s “Make your peers your first team.”.

I think this concept makes a lot of sense and falls into the category of things that are hard and that we will have to continually work at but that we should try at anyway.

I also think this is really interesting when taken with the HBR article I linked last week. Together, the next steps become “this is how to build the kind of team that escalates as needed”.

🐾 The NGINX mascot cat

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..has a name: “Jinx”. I learned more about the history of the name in the NGINX community forum. See the What is the story behind the name of “Jinx”, the NGINX mascot cat? thread to see what the team at F5 had to say and a few pics of Jinx.

Pixel Art

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🎮 wplace

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Like many people, I discovered wplace.live this week! A few tools I found helpful while playing:

• Wplace Paint Tool
• Blue Marble lets you overlay an outline of what you want to create over the map. This permits a “paint-by-numbers” approach.

I’m using Blue Marble to paint this lucky cat out near the Ohio-West Virginia border. Since other players can’t see the outline, I dispersed the dots a bit to make the outline of what I am doing clear. Folks are mostly respectful but it is the Internet.

It’s hard to describe wplace but I don’t hate ZDNet’s characterization of it as a digital graffiti project. Know Your Meme credits Murilo Matsubara for building and launching wplace last month.

Little Pixel Library

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This was a week for pixel art! I bumped into the Little Pixel Library this week, too! Both wplace and the Little Pixel Library gave me plenty of opportunity to use some of the Image Tools made available in my self-hosted instance of OmniTools. I can not recommend OmniTools highly enough! It’s free, open source, self-hostable and amazing:

Boost your productivity with OmniTools, the ultimate toolkit for getting things done quickly! Access thousands of user-friendly utilities for editing images, text, lists, and data, all directly from your browser.

I found two books that called to me at a Little Free Library on this ~18 mile/28 kilometer bike ride earlier this week.

Upgrading my Steam achievements RSS setup

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While I really like that Achievement Stats offers an RSS feed, timeouts are often enough to render said feed no longer useful. I borrowed Manu’s work in Feed my A(chievement)ddiction to deploy what you see at 🏆 achieved.by.brie.lol. The cron job to keep the feed updated works nicely and I’ll be notified if it fails. I wrote a bit about it on BSky and here on Mastodon.

🌊 Avast!

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Fair winds and following seas as you surf the Web.