Blog Archive
2023
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New artwork: If Ye Give Place.
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Links #70
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Links #69
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Booknotes 2.1
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Links #68
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Learning WebAssembly, part 2
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Book of Mormon parallel edition
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Two new pieces: The Keys of This Dispensation: The Mount of Transfiguration:
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A fun little bit of etymological exploration (and note that all of this assumes that Wiktionary is a…
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My friend Lindsay sent me a link to this podcast episode where Blair Hodges interviews John Swinton…
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Robin Sloan on Tolkien in his latest newsletter: Tolkien, for all his vaunted designs, only got to T…
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After holding out for a few months, I’m finally on Mastodon at @bencrowder@mastodon.social. I’ve wan…
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Recent nonfiction reads The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt, by Toby Wilkinson. While it admittedly…
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Links #67
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Learning Elixir, part 2
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Dot grid paper
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New daily goal charts
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Links #66
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Recent nonfiction reads The Soul of a New Machine, by Tracy Kidder. Really good! I especially enjoy…
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Links #65
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Latin declensions chart update
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Learning WebAssembly, part 1
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Thoughts on a little language for generative art
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Links #64
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Learning Elixir, part 1
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New artwork: O That We Had Repented.
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New artwork: For Time and All Eternity V.
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New artwork: Wherefore Didst Thou Doubt? III.
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New artwork: Taught by Their Mothers.
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Links #63
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New artwork: When Our Heavenly Parents We Meet IV. The colors in my art normally don’t represent ski…
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New artwork: Harrowed up No More, continuing the Alma the Younger thread.
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New artwork: God Sent His Holy Angel.
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I heard about Exercism’s 12in23 challenge and while I don’t care much about doing the official chall…
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Links #62
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Just got the framed prints back from the framer, and they’ve turned out lovely: For those interes…
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Recent nonfiction reads The Rules We Break, by Eric Zimmerman. A fun exploration into game design t…
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Another scripture poster, this time in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish: Go…
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Scripture posters
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New abstract hymn print: Be Still, My Soul. I’m experimenting with a slightly new style here, maskin…
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New artwork: Behold My Beloved Son. Basically a Christ Visits the Nephites but with a different titl…
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I’ve got a new exhibition coming soon! It opens next Friday, February 3, at Writ & Vision in Provo,…
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A few new pieces tonight. First, To Fulfill All Righteousness III: And then a scripture print fro…
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New artwork: The Time Is at Hand.
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New artwork: Behold Your Little Ones.
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A new abstract hymn print for As Sisters in Zion:
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New artwork: I Give unto you Power. This takes the idea from Principles and Ordinances II and By the…
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Links #61
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Post mortem patris
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New artwork: No Tongue Can Speak.
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Links #60
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Scripture prints
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Abstract hymn prints
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Hymn prints
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Links #59
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Favorite books in 2022
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A reminder for my future self: when the making well runs dry, it’s good to spend some time on learni…
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Bring Back Blogging is putting together a directory of creators who blog. Recommended.
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Links #58
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Minor prefatory note: I’ve updated the reading page with a slight redesign and (for 2022 reads) the…
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Reading stats for 2022
2022
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Links #57
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Links #56
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Links #55
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Links #54
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Four new pieces tonight. Away in a Manger: Heart, Might, Mind, and Strength III: I’ve a Mother…
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New story: Saying Goodbye. About eight pages long, science fiction. This one came from wanting to wr…
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Two new pieces: Together Forever II. This one came out of losing my father. (That said, it isn’t act…
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Robert A. Caro’s The Power Broker is finally available as an ebook! (On the Kindle store, anyway. I…
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Not much going on here lately because I’ve had a fairly bad flareup of back pain since early Thanksg…
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In the Image of Our Heavenly Parents: A Couple’s Guide to Creating a More Divine Marriage, released…
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New artwork: On These Two Commandments.
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Links #53
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Matt Webb posted about a book blogging thing from days of yore, and I figured I’d have a go at answe…
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New artwork: Before the World Was VII. Exploring the idea of using semicircles to represent Heavenly…
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Grief hit a little bit harder the past few weeks and made reading more difficult. Recent nonfiction…
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New story: Bag Field. About twenty pages long, fantasy. I started writing this story in March 2021 b…
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A few new pieces of art. He Will Deliver Me, about David and Goliath: Everlasting Covenant: Ne…
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Links #52
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A short followup to what I wrote last year about Press, my abandoned typesetting engine project: I’m…
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My ill-timed return to Twitter has ended. I’ve thought about moving to Mastodon (supporting the fede…
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After linking to Felt not too long ago, I actually tried it out and goodness, it’s a delight. Easy t…
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New artwork: Lamb of God.
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Links #51
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Recent nonfiction reads Karachi Vice, by Samira Shackle, about contemporary Pakistan. Really good,…
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New artwork: Their Work and Glory V. I wanted to do a warmer, more subtle version of TW&G IV with (I…
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Links #50
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Family source list WIP part 1
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New artwork: When Our Heavenly Parents We Meet III.
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The Doors of Death, based on a conference talk instead of a scripture (which is something I haven’t…
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I’ve started adding short reviews to the reading log, to make the page a little more useful. Just th…
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I’m back on Twitter. We’ll see it sticks this time. I still see this blog as the main channel for wh…
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More new artwork: Though Your Sins Be as Scarlet II. I haven’t been happy with the original and want…
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New artwork: Holiness to the Lord II. I wanted to make a new version of Between Heaven and Earth and…
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I Need Thee Every Hour II
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Observations on grief
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After nine months of issue blogging (posting issues of Prints), I’ve decided it’s time to return to…
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My dad died this week. He went missing on Tuesday and we found his body in the mountains on Friday a…
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Projects — Prints 2.9
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Links — Prints 2.9
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Reading — Prints 2.9
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Projects — Prints 2.8
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Links — Prints 2.8
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Reading — Prints 2.8
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Links — Prints 2.7
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Reading — Prints 2.7
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Projects — Prints 2.6
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Links — Prints 2.6
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Reading — Prints 2.6
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I’ve been doing a lot of genealogy lately, and as part of that I’ve been refining the family sheets…
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New story: Research Notebook 17, about ten pages long, fantasy. This one was surprisingly easy to wr…
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Links — Prints 2.5
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Reading — Prints 2.5
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New story: Mother Tongue, about twenty pages long, fantasy. I started working on this story back in…
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Links — Prints 2.4
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Reading — Prints 2.4
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Family sheets
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Family sparklines
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Tabular pedigree chart
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Links — Prints 2.3
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Reading — Prints 2.3
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Links — Prints 2.2
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Reading — Prints 2.2
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Links — Prints 2.1
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Projects — Prints 2.1
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Reading — Prints 2.1
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My friend McArthur and some others made a lovely new video, Mother in Heaven: A Cherished Doctrine….
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Prints 1.10
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Prints 1.9
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Prints 1.8
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Prints 1.7
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Prints 1.6
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Prints 1.5
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Prints 1.4
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Prints 1.3
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Prints 1.2
2021
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Prints 1.1
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New artwork: But If Not.
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For those who feel inclined to reply via email: what was the best book you read this year? Any genre…
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Things I’ve found helpful when reading hard/old books: Slow down Speed up Read out loud (or subvoca…
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Lately I’ve been thinking about small VMs, thanks to Uxn. Long-term sustainability and portability i…
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Just added diagonal graph paper to the note paper page. It looks like this: Why would you use thi…
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In this time of being thankful, and in close connection with what I wrote yesterday, I see now that…
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On my walk early this morning I looked up and noticed to my surprise that stars twinkle. I once knew…
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I’ve adopted a new rule for myself: create before consume. Each day, I have to do creative work for…
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Small milestone I almost forgot about: this website turned twenty this year. January 23, 2001. It’s…
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Links #49
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Historia Calamitatum
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A couple quick updates: Today was my last day at Cedar (formerly OODA Health before the acquisition)…
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Links #48
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Links #47
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Update on Press (the PDF compiler). I haven’t worked on it at all lately, but I wanted to document i…
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Two new pieces. First is He Sent Forth a Dove, a reference to Noah and the ark: Second is Taken H…
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For those subscribing via RSS or JSON Feed: I’ve added the post tags to the top of each post, mirror…
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Came across Miriam Suzanne’s CSS scope proposal this morning (via Jeremy Keith). Looks good.
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My friend Stephen Cranney wrote a guest post for Times & Seasons about Church growth in the United S…
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Eons ago in 2006, I apparently — I have no memory of this and happened to stumble across it tonight…
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Lately I’ve been playing around with implementing genealogy sparklines on the web. Still very much a…
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Since the phone is now the window to the soul, here’s my current home screen: Things of possible…
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Three more new pieces: An High Mountain Apart (the Mount of Transfiguration), By the Laying on of Ha…
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New artwork: One in Mine Hand.
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New artwork: From Everlasting Death.
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New artwork: Beginning of Miracles.
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New artwork: Glories.
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Links #46
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Links #45
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We’re overdue for some kind of general life update, I think. Weeknotes-that-are-not-weeknotes: The…
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New artwork: As Sisters in Zion II.
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Another new piece: Veil, in which we finally break free of our two-dimensional habits and get an ort…
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I seem to have forgotten how to blog. (Actual blogging, as opposed to merely linking to new art.) In…
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New artwork: Wherefore Didst Thou Doubt? II.
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And another new piece: Principles and Ordinances II.
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Two new pieces: My Yoke Is Easy and The Word of God. (Exploring this hollow circle style a bit more….
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New artwork: The Waters Were Divided II.
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New artwork: For Time and All Eternity III and For Time and All Eternity IV. (Two variations on the…
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New artwork: The Love of God II.
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New artwork: Their Work and Glory III. Another exploration in symbolic ways to represent our Heavenl…
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New artwork: Principles and Ordinances.
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New artwork: Of These Emblems II.
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New artwork: The Gathering of Israel. For a few months I’d been thinking about how to symbolically r…
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New artwork: Alpha and Omega.
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Brief and no doubt boring update on internal tooling: As of a few days ago, I’m planning to take Vin…
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New artwork: Why Weepest Thou? (a variation on Woman, Why Weepest Thou?).
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New artwork: A Broken Heart and a Contrite Spirit. Another style experiment to find something that I…
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At work I recently had a use case for Go 1.16’s new embedding feature. Incredibly easy to implement…
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Links #44
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New artwork: Take up Thy Bed. (This was an attempt to go back to a style that I think isn’t as hard…
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Quick update on projects, or rather the general lack thereof these past few months. Since messing up…
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New artwork: Let God Prevail.
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New artwork: Before the World Was III.
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Booknotes 1.6
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New artwork: Keystone.
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Booknotes 1.5
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Links #43
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I used to use Fabric to deploy my personal apps, but I often ran into issues with it, so several mon…
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Blog-driven productivity
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Links #42
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Links #41
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Booknotes 1.4
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New artwork: This Is My Beloved Son.
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New artwork: I Will Give You Rest II.
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New artwork: He Is Not Here II.
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Weeknotes 2.2
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Booknotes 1.3
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Links #40
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Low-effort journaling
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Links #39
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Weeknotes 2.1
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Booknotes 1.2
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Links #38
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New artwork: Where Can I Turn for Peace? On this one I tried a new texturing technique which I’ll ex…
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Beats
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New artwork: New and Everlasting II and New and Everlasting III, a matching set.
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New artwork: That Same Sociality. I’m finding, by the way, that Cirque continues to come in handy. P…
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Links #37
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New artwork: Salt of the Earth.
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New artwork: Suffer the Little Children to Come unto Me.
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Release bundles reburied
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Links #36
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Release bundles reborn
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New artwork: Heart, Might, Mind, and Strength. This is the first piece I’ve painted in Procreate wit…
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My last day at BYU was this past Friday. It’s still a bit surreal — for a very long time I thought I…
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New artwork: How Great Is His Joy.
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New artwork: Already to Harvest.
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New artwork: It Shall Be Opened unto You.
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I’ve decided to ditch Adobe’s Creative Cloud apps — Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator, mainly. I…
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New artwork: In Every Thought.
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New artwork: In Your Mind and in Your Heart II. A bit more abstract than my first attempt at this id…
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New artwork: Upon This Mount.
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New artwork: Son of the Living God. (I decided the Monday/Thursday release schedule is a little too…
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New artwork: Pillar of Light.
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New artwork: Fishers of Men.
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New artwork: Always Have His Spirit to Be With Them. It was a little hard to keep this one from look…
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Booknotes 1.1
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Links #35
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Links #34
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Links #33
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New artwork: Yesterday, Today, and Forever.
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New artwork: Reunion III. A more minimalist take on my earlier reunion/veil pieces. I like the intro…
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Weeknotes #21
2020
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New artwork: Woman, Why Weepest Thou? (Taking the idea from He Is Risen and going a little further w…
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Another in-progress bit of design, this time from a writing app I’m working on. (Which I’m thinking…
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New artwork: Seventy Times Seven.
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Weeknotes #20
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New artwork: Come unto Christ. This one started as a piece about Lorenzo Snow’s couplet “As man now…
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I’m slowly getting back into doing non-religious art, and What Do You Mean, “What Are You Doing?” is…
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New artwork: Ministering of Angels.
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The initial version of my design portfolio is now live. Whew. Time for a breather over the weekend a…
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New artwork: In Swaddling Clothes. (Figured it was time for another Christmas piece.)
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Weeknotes #19
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Links #32
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New artwork: The Waters Were Divided.
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New artwork: Servant of the Living God.
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Interested in helping with some UX research? I’m going to be revamping the information architecture…
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Links #31
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New artwork: Faith, Hope, Charity. Figma is working great for me, by the way. Right now I’m using it…
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New artwork: When the Light Shall Begin to Break Forth.
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Weeknotes #18
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As I’ve been toiling away on my design portfolio, I realized that a) I haven’t been working in publi…
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New artwork: Line upon Line. Going for a slightly more varied background texture this time.
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New artwork: Face to Face II. It’s a more minimal, more focused version of my earlier Face to Face p…
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New artwork: Oil in Their Vessels. I’m taking more artistic license than usual with this one (how oi…
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On Instagram, I’ve decided to split my non-religious art off to its own account, @bencrowderdraws, s…
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New artwork: Water, Spirit, Blood. Years ago, by the way, I first tried executing this idea, but I w…
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Weeknotes #17
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Links #30
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Links #29
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New artwork: I Am a Child of God II. A remix of I Am a Child of God using the recent loose stained-g…
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New artwork: In the Beginning. I’ve been trying for a couple weeks to figure out how to do this piec…
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Links #28
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Weeknotes #16
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Links #27
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Weeknotes #15
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Links #26
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Weeknotes #14
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Links #25
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Another new artwork: The Lord’s Passover II. (I’ve wanted to do a simpler, better version of The Lor…
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The hiatus may or may not be over. New artwork: Mother in Heaven. I used Cirque to create the small…
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A short update on Cirque: I took out the turbulence filters, because they shouldn’t have been there…
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This past week I turned off the self view for all my Zoom meetings, and it makes things feel a bit m…
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Weeknotes #13
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Introducing Cirque
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Links #24
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Links #23
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Weeknotes #12
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Weeknotes #11
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After twelve years at the library, I’ve realized it’s time for a change and have started looking for…
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Weeknotes #10
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Links #22
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Links #21
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Weeknotes #9
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A new poem: “Rusted Crowns.” I started this one almost a year ago with just the first stanza written…
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Some quick toolmaking updates: Not very long ago I felt like Storybook was a bit cumbersome, and in…
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Links #20
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As a spur to get myself writing more, I’ve put up a new writing statistics page. There you can see i…
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Weeknotes #8
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Weeknotes #7
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Links #19
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Links #18
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Weeknotes #6
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Links #17
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I ended up tweaking my Vim syntax highlighting earlier this week (after my first post), to be more i…
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New artwork: Christ Visits the Nephites III, a third installment in the series. This time round I ex…
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Links #16
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Over the weekend I read Ben Kuhn’s post on syntax highlighting and thought the idea sounded intrigu…
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Lately I’ve been thinking about this Sam Altman quote on focus: Focus is a force multiplier on work….
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Just wanted to say thank you to all of you for reading this blog. I realize the time you spend here…
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Weeknotes #5
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New artwork: Nothing Shall Be Impossible unto You II. A slightly different take on the same idea as…
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Brain dump time. These are some of the things I think about re: art, specifically the type of art I’…
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Links #15
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New artwork: Peace, Be Still. I dialed up the SVG turbulence filters to get the effect on the left….
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New artwork: Body of Christ. For this piece I re-used most of the code from Tree of Life II, with mi…
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My subconscious seems to be on a quest to turn this blog into more of a magazine, with regular colum…
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Links #14
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Two new pieces: They Could Not Hit Him (Samuel the Lamanite on the wall) and Pearl of Great Price (a…
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Links #13
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New artwork: The Night Shall Not Be Darkened. On this one I used an erosion filter along with turbul…
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Weeknotes #4
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Playing around with generative orthogonal cubes, just for fun (which probably means I’m avoiding my…
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One of the most important tools in my productivity/creativity toolbox is carving out time to think….
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Links #12
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Some quick thoughts about the project space I see myself working in (meaning personal coding project…
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Made a new favicon for the site for the first time since July 2015. Old on left, new on right: Th…
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Links #11
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Weeknotes #3
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A few other new pieces: Nothing Shall Be Impossible unto You (about faith), Roll Forth (about the st…
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New artwork: Tree of Life II. I used the same circle packing technique to generate the circles, cons…
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Links #10
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Time for a short report on office hours in practice: I’ve held three sessions so far and all have be…
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Links #9
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I’m getting a bit of a nostalgia kick reading through the Standard Ebooks process. I haven’t made an…
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Links #8
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New artwork: Within the Walls of Your Own Homes. I realized (this is the very small breakthrough I m…
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Weeknotes #2
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A year and a half ago I started working on a REPL-based music composition environment called Trill….
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Links #7
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Links #6
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Achievement unlocked: today I finished the first draft of my (as yet untitled) novel, weighing in at…
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New artwork: Plan of Salvation. Inspired by a comment my friend Naomi made about another piece. This…
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Sacred Shapes walkthrough
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A mere two thousand words remain left to scribble down on the first draft of this novel. It seems a…
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Links #5
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In Robin Sloan’s week four POTO diary I came across three important-to-me ideas about writing. World…
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Office hours
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New artwork: Before the World Was II. It’s (in my opinion) a much better execution of Before the Wor…
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Came across Marie Brennan’s AMA today and was struck by the bit about incubating story ideas. I writ…
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Weeknotes #1
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I recently discovered weeknotes, and I am excited. Extremely short posts (one or two lines, like a t…
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The productivity tools series has now come to its end, thankfully. (Thankfully because I’m more inte…
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Arc intro
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Lector intro
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Links #4
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Saturn intro
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I’m currently dealing with tendinitis — or some other kind of RSI, not entirely sure what it is. It…
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Storybook intro
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Taking a cue from Robin Rendle and Jonnie Hallman, I’ve added a “Reply via email” mailto link at the…
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Bookshelf intro
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Links #3
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In reading my journals this morning, I realized that what future journal readers — my grandchildren,…
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Momentum intro
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Links #2
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Quill intro
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Gate intro
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An update on the novel: I’m at around 226 pages on this first draft, which translates to roughly 87%…
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Some WIP experimentation with art. Brief backstory: when I’m doing my minimalist religious art, I us…
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I’m going to try batching links into groups of five from now on, since solitary links often feel a l…
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Slash intro
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While not all of these are actually one-liners, Una Kravets’s Ten modern layouts in one line of CSS…
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Enjoyed Anne Ewbank’s article on the invention of the rice cooker.
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Ditto intro
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Vinci intro
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For the last year or so I’ve been rereading some of my old journals each day, to remind myself of my…
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Two quick thoughts on reading: Over the last few years I’ve wanted to get back into reading classics…
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Recommended: Zeynep Tüfekçi’s article We Need to Talk About Ventilation from The Atlantic, on the im…
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Liszt intro
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Over the last several years I’ve built a number of personal productivity tools (almost all of them w…
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Lately I’ve felt a bit stuck with the minimalist religious art. Ideas aren’t coming as easily as the…
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Another First Vision lecture! On Sunday night, Eric Jepson gave a lecture entitled Triangulating God…
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From a Ted Chiang interview: For me, it is about identifying the things that you find interesting th…
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I recently came across Maggie Appleton’s article on digital gardens. Oh my goodness, this is delight…
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I have now passed 50,000 words on the novel, making this the longest piece I’ve ever written, period…
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I added an about the blog page (still somewhat of a rough draft) which also explains how to use the…
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Last night Richard L. Bushman gave a Center for Latter-day Saint Arts Zoom keynote: In commemoration…
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Yesterday I found out that one of my coworkers (not on my direct team, but in my division) passed aw…
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Came across Andy Matuschak’s note on working in public: One of my favorite ways that creative people…
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New artwork: Love at Home.
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Bubble Pursuit
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Today I came across some intriguing example uses of OpenAI’s new GPT-3 generator: Manuel Araoz’s art…
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I’ve been enjoying Emily McQueen’s The Green Hymnbook project (@greenhymnbook) — typewritten hymn te…
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New artwork: Prodigal Son.
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Atmosphere
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By way of the Glue chat comic (interesting ideas, by the way), I came across John Palmer’s excellent…
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BYU Studies cover
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Come, Follow Me reader’s edition
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Two months ago I posted about the novel I’m currently working on and mentioned how smoothly it was g…
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This quote from Guy Gavriel Kay (from a 2014 article in The Guardian) has been comforting and inspir…
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Years ago when I was the lead web designer for the BYU library, I developed the (seriously unprofess…
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Hark! I’ve replaced the formerly anemic home page (a barebones list of recent work) with a more text…
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New artwork: The Lord’s Passover. Also, this one wasn’t digital. (Acrylic on canvas board.) Definite…
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New artwork: Mine Angels Round About You.
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Two new pieces of art: Pressing Forward (from Lehi’s vision) and New and Everlasting.
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New artwork: The Millennium.
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New artwork: Before the World Was. I wrote a DrawBot script to generate the circles and randomly dis…
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New artwork: To Save Us All. On this one I decided to go back to clean lines, rather than the distre…
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New artwork: Light of Truth and Love.
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New artwork: Families Can Be Together Forever.
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Another new piece: As Sisters in Zion. (Today is apparently an art day.)
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Another new painting based on a hymn: When Our Heavenly Parents We Meet.
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New artwork: I Am a Child of God.
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Last night Esther Hi’ilani Candari posted The Body of Christ, a good article about race in our relig…
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Father’s Blessing
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My Soul Delighteth II
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Let the Lower Lights Be Burning
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The Angels of God Were There
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Their Work and Glory II
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The Third Day
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Accidentally spent a couple hours working on my Italian-side genealogy (late 1700s and early 1800s i…
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Our stake has thankfully decided that given Utah’s current COVID-19 numbers, it’s too early to start…
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No Respecter of Persons
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Trailing Clouds of Glory II
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My Soul Delighteth
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Abide with Me
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First Vision Triptych III
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I love this quote from Carl Sagan’s Cosmos: What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object…
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Yet in My Flesh Shall I See God
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Lately I’ve been reading a history of the Borgias, taking place in the late 1400s. In reading about…
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Family Prayer V
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Ninety and Nine II
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Of Heavenly Parents
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For Time and All Eternity II
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I recently came across this quote from Martha Graham (which according to Wikiquote is from page 264…
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Upon the Cross of Calvary
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I’m about a third of the way through the first draft of a novel. As it happens, this is the furthest…
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Hearts of the Children II
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Back at the beginning of the year I had a few days of reading over a hundred pages a day, and I like…
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I’ve been enjoying BYUtv’s new show Artful. In the three episodes that have aired so far, they’ve fe…
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I just read James Goldberg’s post Why I Hate White Jesus. It’s a good piece, well worth reading. Ove…
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I signed up for USPS’s Informed Delivery Digest a few weeks ago and it’s been quite handy: Digitally…
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Erin Bromage’s The Risks - Know Them - Avoid Them piece on COVID-19 is a good explanation of what it…
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In Your Royal Courts on High
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I’ve a Mother There
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Rocking a young baby to sleep is one of the joys of parenting I’ll miss dearly when my kids grow old…
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This Guardian article about “the real Lord of the Flies” (an excerpt from Rutger Bregman’s upcoming…
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Ready to Eat
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It Is I; Be Not Afraid
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Wherefore Didst Thou Doubt?
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Baptized for the Dead
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Spirit of Elijah
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I Will Give You Rest
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Whatsoever You Seal on Earth
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Every Knee
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Reunion II
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Slain for the Sins of the World
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In the Arms of His Love II
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Great news: Apple and Google are integrating COVID-19 contact tracing into iOS and Android. Earlier…
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To Keep It Holy
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My wife and I watched Free Solo last night on Disney+. What a stressful movie. Don’t get me wrong, i…
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A small ray of hope: I came across some COVID-19 projections for Utah by IHME (the Institute for Hea…
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It Is the Same
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April 6, 1830
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On the Third Day
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Prophets, Seers, Revelators II
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Nevertheless
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He Is Not Here
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Fire from Heaven
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First Vision XIV
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Brief update: still alive, doing fine, just staying home with my wife and kids in the hope of helpin…
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Tell Me the Stories of Jesus
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Gethsemane
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Holiness to the Lord
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His Holy House
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Their Work and Glory
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Before Our Journey’s Through
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This rotary cellphone makes me happy. As does this GIF/Jif peanut butter jar.
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Last night I finished writing a ray tracer for class. Super basic, no antialiasing, only a couple pr…
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McArthur Krishna interviewed me over at the Seeking Heavenly Mother blog about I Have a Mother There…
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A Girl’s Guide to Heavenly Mother
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Shoulder to the Wheel II
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There are two quotes that have been in my mind a lot lately. First, by Christopher McQuarrie (via th…
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From the Saturday issue of Heather Cox Richardson’s Letters from an American newsletter: People are…
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Recent reads: Cat’s Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut. My first time reading Vonnegut. Not really what I expe…
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I completely forgot to post this earlier: back in November/December, I made a family prayer piece fo…
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Sacred Shapes exhibition
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Let Him Ask of God
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Weapons of War
2019
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I was commissioned recently to do cover artwork for a new magazine, the Work + Wonder Collective. Th…
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The New Testament Doesn’t Say What Most People Think It Does About Heaven, by N. T. Wright (whose in…
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Portuguese Book of Mormon reader’s edition
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The Christmas songs I love most tend to be more somber and haunting, at least to me: “In the Bleak M…
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Spanish Book of Mormon reader’s edition
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Recent reads: Good to Great, by Jim Collins. I enjoyed this much more than I thought I would (having…
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New poem (a sonnet): The sight of you.
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Latin New Testament study edition
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Finally got around to trying CSS grid layout. It’s amazing. I’m very much looking forward to learnin…
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Came across Cal Newport’s phone foyer method this morning. My wife and I tried it out today and what…
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Tectonic is an intriguing modern TeX engine written in Rust and powered by XeTeX. What exactly that…
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New poem: Bernadette.
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Last year I posted a note about Curves, a Python type design library I was working on. At the time I…
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Delighted to hear about the changes to witnessing ordinances.
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Recent reads: Digital Minimalism, by Cal Newport. My favorite parts were the bits on solitude and on…
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Sixteen Small Stones
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Godhead II
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In Remembrance
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First Vision XIII
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First Vision XII
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First Vision XI
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Greek New Testament reader’s edition
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Scanbook 0.1.0
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In Your Mind and in Your Heart
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In the Arms of His Love
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That We May Have Light
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Current status: geeking out over the 2019 in science Wikipedia page (and its sibling pages for other…
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Greek New Testament study edition
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Just posted some note paper PDFs which I made in PlotDevice. There’s lined paper — 30 lines/page up…
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Airplane
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Scripture Journals
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Posted EPUBs for On Fighallow Street and Box Man.
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Recent reads: Prisoners of Geography, by Tim Marshall. This was my first foray into geopolitics, and…
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epubdiff
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Weekend Adventure
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Maternal Bond
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For what it’s worth: I’ve redesigned the art page. It’s more visual now, and I’ve also tagged the ar…
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After Work
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Confession: I’ve recently taken up the habit of studying textbooks for fun. (Well, for knowledge and…
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Poor Notre Dame. While visiting London around a decade ago, I decided on a whim to take the Eurostar…
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Mozilla just announced their Pyodide project, built with WebAssembly and emscripten: Pyodide gives y…
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Together
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Long Time No See
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Nom Nom Nom Nom
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Nom Nom Nom
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Decided to stop posting my art to Instagram. Some of the features of social media — likes and favori…
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Box Man
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On Fighallow Street
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First Vision X
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Old Testament study edition
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Face to Face
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Sons and Daughters
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The World’s Writing Systems. It would be nice if each entry had more information rather than just li…
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Why the stereotypical pencil is yellow.
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Family Prayer IV
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Family Prayer III
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Family Prayer II
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Lost in a Book
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Reading Together
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As we were starting to review next week’s Come, Follow Me lesson tonight, my wife noticed that her c…
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Book of Mormon line edition prototype
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LiteCLI is a nice, new CLI client for SQLite. Recommended.
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Scrub
2018
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Earth Below
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For people who want updates via email on what I’ve been working on (art, design, writing, coding, et…
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Good Tidings of Great Joy
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O Grave, Where Is Thy Victory?
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Together Forever
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In Good Hands
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Trailing Clouds of Glory
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Together Again
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Doctrine & Covenants, Pearl of Great Price, and New Testament large print study editions
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Daily goal chart
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Successfully defended my thesis proposal (not the final thesis) yesterday. Whew. Current plan is to…
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Going Home
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Not Very Far Away II
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Hearts of the Children
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Not Very Far Away
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Book of Mormon large print study edition
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Andrew Johnson’s article on his typographic experiments in augmented reality is good. Realtime 3D is…
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I’ve enjoyed Anne Trubek’s Notes from a Small Press newsletter. Recommended if you’re interested in…
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Fascinating chart showing the imprints and other divisions of the Big Five U.S. publishers (Penguin…
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Descending Like a Dove
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Emblems
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First Vision IX
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First Vision VIII
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Nom Nom
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I’m reading Daniella Martin’s Edible, on how eating insects is good for humanity, and I’m pretty clo…
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I used to keep track of genealogy research todo items in an app of my own make (Gent), but lately I’…
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Continuing along the lines of what I wrote on Friday: I’ve gotten into a bad habit of releasing new…
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President Eyring has an exhibit of watercolor paintings opening tomorrow at the Church History Museu…
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On Muslims at BYU, from The Christian Science Monitor: Like Islam, the LDS Church has at times been…
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On ebooks
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One thing I often tend to forget (and really need to remember) is that the first few drafts of somet…
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In my interactive systems class, we recently had an assignment to make something with either a laser…
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Productivity in small slices
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Update on projects: I’m working on a short story. All of my story drafts of late have turned darker…
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Current status: in the thick of thesis proposal revisions. (Just finished the first full draft, with…
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Book of Mormon reader’s edition 3.0
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Just came across Flight rules for Git and it’s the kind of thing I’ve wanted for years. For example:…
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On wombats: Despite the fact that they do not look streamlined, a wombat can run at up to 25 miles a…
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The new IPCC report is alarming to say the least: The IPCC authors promise that we will see coastal…
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Bloomberg on the Chinese chip infiltration: Two of Elemental’s biggest early clients were the Mormon…
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When Magic Came into the World
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Downside of Firefox, courtesy of Google: Gmail’s performance in Firefox is abysmal. Not only is it d…
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Switched from Chrome to Firefox yesterday. (I don’t really trust Google anymore and figured it was f…
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Current school status: in the middle of writing my thesis proposal, with a deadline of mid-November….
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Yale has some cool new research on robotic skins that turn everyday objects into robots.
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The use of the letters A through F to represent the digits above 9 was not universal in the early hi…
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Good post on ownership in Rust, using Python as an example.
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I Need Thee Every Hour
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My wife and I realized just now that we haven’t seen any daddy long legs in many, many years. (We bo…
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Just released version 2.1 of the reader’s edition of the Book of Mormon. (Fixes two minor typos.) Al…
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From The Lost City of the Monkey God, this unsettling description of smallpox: Epidemiologists gener…
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Ursula K. Le Guin in Words Are My Matter: Present-tense narration is now taken for granted by many b…
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Michael Swanwick on how fantasy is not about magic: So what is the beating heart of fantasy, its sin…
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Came across Joel Grus’s I Don’t Like Notebooks slides on the downsides of Jupyter notebooks. I don’t…
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Came across this good post on Mormon Women about the recent statement on the name of the Church: As…
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Nice recap video on the 2018 Mormon Arts Center Festival in New York back in June. (Also, Lita and K…
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Eye-opening photos of stacks of inflated Venezuelan currency. (First photo: 5,000,000 bolivars, wort…
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Pot is a problem: But cannabis is not benign, even if it is relatively benign, compared with alcohol…
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Came across En Masse, a Vim plugin that makes the quickfix list editable. Very useful. (Similar to S…
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On why there are so many Thai restaurants in the U.S.
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Per President Nelson’s announcement and the new style guide, I’ve renamed the Mormon materials page…
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I somehow missed hearing about this before now: El Pregonero de Deseret is a Spanish-language Mormon…
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Also, I’ve effectively retired my Twitter account (deleting almost all my tweets, cessation of posti…
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Steven Pressfield’s The War of Art is only $1.50 on the U.S. Kindle store right now. Such a good boo…
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Cube Family at the Pool
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Cube Family Portrait
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On the real reason people rent middle-aged men in Japan. It’s all part of his job as a rented “ossan…
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Tyler Cowen on the possible number of foreign spies: But I wonder if the actual number of foreign sp…
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abcjs is a JS library for turning abc music notation into SVG. Nice for embedding music on a web pag…
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A spectre is haunting Unicode: In 1978 Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry established t…
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Reading through the Preact source, I came across this short introduction to JSX. It’s clear and does…
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One of my favorite things: driving with the windows down late at night. (Though I have young kids, s…
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From The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James: By their fruits ye shall know them, not…
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Ten Years of Mormon Artist
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Just moved this blog to date-based grouping. It’s really only visible on the blog page — it shouldn’…
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Also, the San Francisco fire department makes their ladders from wood by hand.
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This history of steel from Popular Mechanics is fascinating. Highly recommended.
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Rewrote my about page to be somewhat more detailed. (The self-indulgence of it makes me cringe a lit…
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On flying spiders: Spiders have no wings, but they can take to the air nonetheless. They’ll climb to…
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Steve Yegge’s post on Grab back in January is fascinating, particularly the bit on how he thinks rid…
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Circles and triangles are good, but I’m getting bored with this minimalist style and I think it’s ti…
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Lullaby
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I’ve learned lately that I quickly lose interest in the fiction I’m writing unless it has the follow…
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Mountain of the Lord
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Just saw this review of the reMarkable tablet, which I hadn’t heard of before. E-ink paper + pencil,…
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Hear Him
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Came across a great tip on Python multiline strings using textwrap.dedent (so you don’t have to dede…
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Reunion
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An interesting grammar note from a book I’ve been reading on Proto-Indo-European: Indo-European verb…
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Over on r/Fantasy, they recently ran a poll to rank the top self-published books. It’s admittedly li…
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Name and Blessing
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Family Prayer
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By the Laying on of Hands
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For Time and All Eternity
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Just came across the Procreate Pocket update that recently dropped. It’s good! Very happy to see cus…
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Doctrine & Covenants, Pearl of Great Price, and New Testament study editions
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Fascinating article on parasitic wasps: Forbes studies parasitoid wasps. These creatures use their s…
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Just came across Frank Chimero’s essay Everything Easy Is Hard Again, on the rapid state of change o…
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First Vision VII
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The copy is the original: In China and Japan, temples may be rebuilt and ancient warriors cast again…
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He Is Risen
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The Soul’s Sincere Desire
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Morning Feed
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Though Your Sins Be as Scarlet
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A Child’s Prayer
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Eternal Progression
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Christ Visits the Nephites II
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Of These Emblems
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INRI
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New to me: the history of the name Bluetooth. The logo (so obvious in hindsight) comes from the Dani…
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“Printers are essentially paper torture chambers”: New Yorker article on why paper jams still persis…
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Processing bulk natural wood into a high-performance structural material: Wood is among the oldest m…
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Between Heaven and Earth
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This is fascinating: Vernacular Economics: How Building Codes & Taxes Shape Regional Architecture.
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Maciej Ceglowski’s May 2017 talk Legends of the Ancient Web is a good warning about mass surveillanc…
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Louis Sauzedde’s videos on building wooden boats are fascinating.
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This post on why everything might have taken so long to invent is great. (Also see the original post…
2017
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I’ve updated the rest of the scriptures in Word to match the new formatting, and I’ve added the rema…
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Scriptures in Google Docs
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Book of Mormon in Word redesigned
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A quick update: school’s starting today (I had July/August off, thus the burst of art), so posts wil…
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First Vision VI
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First Vision V
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First Vision IV
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First Vision III
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First Vision II
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First Vision
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The Abandoned Beanstalk
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That They May Be Light
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They That Be With Us
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Tree 001
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Till We Meet Again
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More scripture releases
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Reader’s editions 2.0
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Book of Mormon study edition 2.0
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The Love of God
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Ugaritic alphabet chart
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Shoulder to the Wheel
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Recommended: Standard Ebooks. They’re doing the same kind of thing I’ve done — making nice EPUB/Kind…
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Quick update: In my limited free time, I’ve been working on some exciting new publishing projects th…
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Came across fsql, which does SQL-like filesystem queries (an intriguing idea): fsql SELECT name FROM…
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I enjoyed Simon Cozens’ talk The Journey of a Word: How Text Ends up on a Page. It’s a good explanat…
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Dodecaglotta is a lovely polyglot Bible in progress — Latin, Greek, Church Slavonic, Syriac, Coptic,…
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JSON Feed looks great — much nicer than RSS from a developer perspective, at least in my opinion. I’…
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Blogging is low on the priority list at the moment, thanks to school. The preliminary classes for th…
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Bubbles
2016
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And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes
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After a break of several months, I’m getting back to working on Press. Status is pretty much the sam…
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George Saunders in The Braindead Megaphone, of the news but perhaps applicable elsewhere as well: In…
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Collected talks updated for October 2016
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Old and New Testaments in JSON
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General conference continues to get better the older I get. Clarity and light and revelation in pret…
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Updated scriptures in JSON
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As of a few weeks ago, I’m now planning to apply for the master’s program in computer science at BYU…
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The blog, merged
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More scriptures in JSON
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Book of Mormon in JSON
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Russian alphabet chart
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I’m working on a Russian alphabet chart at the moment. Things are mostly in place, with some spacing…
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I’ve reorganized my Mormon page, primarily to gather together all of the scripture-related materials…
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From Charles Mann’s 1491: Almost 150 years before Columbus set sail, a Tartar army besieged the Geno…
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Progress on Press has been a bit slower lately. I’ve fixed most of the errors I discovered by runnin…
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A quick update: I was stuck for a while on the Dagh story, but I’ve started spending my lunch hour w…
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Rather than starting work on Ink with the low-level typesetting engine, I’m thinking it’ll be worthw…
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Black Cat
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Press can now generate PDFs. For example: from press import Press with Press(‘press-demo.pdf’, size…
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Rule-based typesetting with Ink
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I’ve renamed inkpdf to Press (as in printing press). I reached the point where creating the PDF manu…
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Updated the Latin 1st conjugation chart — the passive subjunctive pluperfect plural was incorrectly…
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From Wedge, a history of the conflict between the FBI and the CIA: One famous undertaking was spawne…
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Making PDFs by hand
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Updated the Latin declensions chart with a fix for fructus, which was incorrectly feminine (it’s mas…
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Ink
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I’ve spent the last few months avoiding the heck out of writing the novel (Edge of Magic). The plot…
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Quick note: yesterday I pulled all my stuff off Redbubble (things seemed shady over there) and uploa…
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Brightness and Glory
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Learning Haskell, day 1
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To Fulfill All Righteousness
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Snakes
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Circlecells
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The difference between fantasy and science fiction
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The Book of Shaders is a nice introduction to fragment shaders. Like Toby Schachman’s Pixel Shaders…
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I enjoyed Kenneth Ormandy’s essay on efficient web type circa 1556.
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Speed
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Sahidic Coptic alphabet chart
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Back on December 3, I made a goal to write a thousand words of fiction a day, every day (skipping Su…
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Today I tried doing my daily writing via phone dictation, and it went surprisingly well. I had to co…
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I’ve been working on a piece called “To Fulfil All Righteousness,” on the baptism of Christ. My init…
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Lighting and background removal
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Lifter is “a lightweight query engine for Python iterables.” Looks nice. One of their examples: # va…
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The state of the novel: avoiding outlining. I ended up shelving the Cria/Iresha storyline (it’ll be…
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The blog, now split
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Quad
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Scriptures in Word
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Latin and Thai chart source files
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The splitting of the blog
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Edge of Magic update
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The Edge of Magic