Issue 2021 04
Hey, welcome to the newsletter. I tend to not write much at the moment and wanted to make a way to keep friends, family, and collaborators in the loop. My goal is to have this be a different pace of conversation, one that’s slower than Twitter, but faster than my typical blogging pace. The structure I want to experiment with over time but the current starting categories of thought organization will be Learnings, Conversations, Creations, and Recommendations. So here we go.
Learnings:
This month we held our first in-person Tiny Gathering in Taiwan. It was very informal and we met a lot of new friends. It made me excited to hold more in-person events in the future.
Conversations:
Lately, it feels like most conversations have been with me as I edit the copy on my website. It’s always been a tricky thing for me because I want the site to feel like it is for me but job hunting is mostly for someone else.
Creations:
First Impressions - Pimoroni created a 7-color e-ink display that uses python. And I created a small guide on multiverse for helping you get started. The guides use a modified example with a collection of example functions to help you personalize the display quickly. The code lives on Github and every so often I add a new service to the frame. Let me know if there are any you would like to see.
Field Notes from Taipei - I observing new environments when I travel and started keeping small journals of what stands out to me. This week I made a mini-site where they can start to live outside of Twitter. My next step would be to add a mapping layer to connect you to the locations of the sights, sounds, and videos.
Recommendations:
Gumption by Nick Offerman - Focuses on a collection of American figures who display high levels of gumption in how they go through their life.
Nintendo Builder Garage - Let you make mini-games similar to their LABO product, but without the cardboard and more control over in-game logic.