This will be a must-see for the family. I can’t tell you how often I’ve watched the original animated movies with the boys.

I have mixed feelings about this morning’s snowfall. On the upside, the garden will be immensely picturesque under snow. On the downside, the golf course will likely be closed all weekend, which scraps the plans the wee yin and I had for tomorrow.

Projects like EmojiRain make me glad we have developer-friendly social media platforms again.

I had more fun with ThreeJS tonight. I increased the size of the board and added some trees and boulders to it. I am now at a point where I will focus more on building a representation of the board as an object to start moving my character around the board.

A screenshot of a green tiled board with trees and rocks on the board against a black background.

I continued to make some progress with ThreeJS and TypeScript tonight. I managed to draw a tiled board, move it around the screen with the mouse and be able to change my field of view with a slider.

A screenshot of a green tiled board on a black background.

Joan Westenberg suggests giving yourself 5-year timeframes. I love this. It gives you enough time to work on something, even tear it down, and start again.

Why 5 years? Because it’s the perfect amount of time to marinate in the quiet dread of potential failure, without fully descending into the loud panic of inevitable failure. Five years is enough time to tenderize the soul. You could go from a nobody to a legend, or from a nobody to a nobody with five years of extremely detailed regrets. Either way, you’re richer for the experience.

— I Work On A 5 Year Time Frame. Anything Less Is A Loss.

Molly White’s blogroll page is a treasure trove of RSS feeds if you’re looking to escape from the algorithm-based timelines of the big social media companies.

Played 18 holes with the big yin this morning. Nice to get a round of golf with him instead of just watching him.

Molly White reminds us that we can have a different web.

Though we now face a new challenge as the dominance of the massive walled gardens has become overwhelming, we have tools in our arsenal: the memories of once was, and the creativity of far more people than ever before, who entered the digital expanse but have grown disillusioned with the business moguls controlling life within the walls.

— We can have a different web

After chatting with a colleague at work about a little development project he’s been working on, I now find myself messing about with ThreeJS and TypeScript. I managed to get the ThreeJS demo code working to show a spinning cube. It’s a start. The next step is to get it working in TypeScript.

Installed Tabliss for Firefox this morning. Why have I not done this before?

I got up early this morning, and instead of starting out with some writing of the Ruby code, I opened my notes app and started writing a blog post for today. Nothing major, just an observation for tomorrow. It’s queued up and ready to be published later today. Feels good.

Cal Newport with some advice on dealing with election day anxiety.

Here I have a suggestion that I think could be healing for all points of the political spectrum: use the stress of this election to be the final push needed to step away from the exhausting digital chatter that’s been dominating your brain.

— After You Vote: Unplug

Although I am not voting, I am slightly anxious about what the electoral map will look like by tomorrow. With the timezone difference though, I won’t have any issues following Cal’s advice. By 10pm tonight I will likely be out for the count.

Congrats to the Pixelmator team on joining Apple! I’ve been using Pixelmator for years and have nothing but praise for its simplicity and design.

While this is excellent news for Pixelmator, I wonder how long Apple will allow Pixelmator to exist as it is.

Our Japanese Maple in the garden is looking its best just before all its leaves start to fall. I wish autumn was a bit longer.

A vibrant tree with red and orange leaves stands in a sunny outdoor setting.

Notification Nation.

I mostly have notifications turned off, with only a few apps enabled. Even then, the scope is narrowed down so that I receive a notification from that app once or twice a day.

I had a great time with Drew out in the course today. With winter golf around the corner, it’s time to encourage Drew to try different shots and learn more about what’s possible with his clubs.

I’m heading out for 13 holes of golf with my youngest shortly. I love that our golf club’s course allows you to play 5 holes, 13 holes, or a full round. We’ll mostly play 13 holes over the winter until the weather improves.

Curtis McHale’s Makoism find also got me thinking about how I phrase my RSS feeds and changes.

RSS rotations. I love the sound of that.

I’ve seen many posts about people cancelling their Washington Post subscriptions, but I wonder if cancelling your Amazon Prime is the way to go?

The best thing those readers can do is cancel their $139 annual Prime subscriptions, if they have them, and invest that money in the journalism they say they want and need.

— Don’t Cancel The Washington Post. Cancel Amazon Prime.

I like The Atlantic’s point about hitting Bezos where it matters: Amazon Prime subscriptions. Newspaper subscriptions allow for more independent journalism; we shouldn’t deprive ourselves of that.