I am writing Weeknotes as part of the Indiewebclub #11 prompt. The week was full of learnings : )
[Friday] We celebrated a friend’s birthday, one of the gifts was a printed tee, and I was happy using the heat transfer vinyl sheets on a white tee to print a song lyric that the friend likes. I also saw a friend using Canva which now I feel is a decent enough tool to design posters. We were also competing with an AI generated image of the song lyric prompt we gave, and the effort it took to do it ourselves of the vision was worth it, I do think the AI did a good enough job, but like every AI content I consume, it felt surface, the music, the poetry, the videos, I don’t know the words for it, say they lack intentionality or human emotionality. Since, it was a gift, I wanted it to have the fuzzy human emotions I wanted to convey.
[Friday] We also printed a birthday card with a poem on it by Mary Oliver – When death comes, the card turned out beautiful, the poem is beautiful. I learnt about page setup and the concept of pages per sheet. I am glad to interact with a peripheral device: a printer, which used to seem mysterious and have only consumed the theory of it in 2nd grade in school, of how inkjet vs laser printer works. Interacting with tangible objects solidifies my learning as I am able to find more use-cases for it.
[Thursday +] I started work on my undercover secret project, which is essentially a text document searcher, I am exploring tailwindcss for styling and flask for backend, am currently at finding the first matching result, I also wanna see how to return multiple matching result for the same keyword and also an option to sort it by most recent or start searching from the end of the file?
[Wednesday] On the side, I have also been exploring how to automate new order notifications from meesho for an online business, am using pupeteer and telegram bot but am running into access-denied issues.
[Tuesday] I came back from Vipassana, which is a 10 day meditation retreat, which was brain chemistry changing, the re-integration into society and the social-ness of it has been hard. Although I have been more immune/understanding to the ups and downs of the day to day emotional life, I’d like to maintain the shield and would like to continue meditating. I have cried after coming back, I have been upset, I have some highs yet they are all manageable, and I catch myself sooner when falling into the spiral of multiplying my misery, more about it in the actual Vipassana post.
Got recommended a resource mctb.org which has a chapter on Post-retreat care that I found helpful.
I wrote a post on Vipassana as a reply to a friend, who wanted to know about the experience, which is unpolished and unpublished as of today.
[Monday] I had a long dialogue with a friend which revolved around biases and what does “projecting onto someone” entails. I think one of my first takeaways was the difference between compassion and benefit of doubt, where benefit of doubt is hoping for an alternate reality and sorta dissing on your subjective experience in favor there must exist an “objective true” reality. Where compassion comes in to hold co-space for yourself, your subjective experience and the subjective experience of others. I am not sure how to go about implementing compassion in daily life, I have been implementing “benefit of doubt” in daily life, which as a mental model works but has implicit hidden costs where I am dissing my own lived experiential reality. So I’d like to build tools for compassion slowly and learn of the mental frameworks and real-life things I could do to be more compassionate to myself and others.
That has been the highlights of my life!
Thanks for reading!
Calra/Himanshi
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