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Things from the last couple of weeks:

Another short’n’sweet update:

A short’n’sweet update this week:

Things I got up to in the last week:

• published blog post: systems, processes, and tools
• read an essay on systems design: https://apenwarr.ca/log/20201227 (via this tweet)
• phone link dump, all the way down to zero tabs open…
• got stuck into Observable Getting Started guides and the like and…
• started playing with my own dataset on powerplants
• did more of the Esri Cartography MOOC (running a bit behind, need to catch up!)
• discovered, fixed an issue with, and blogged about QGIS MapSwipe Tool Plugin
• published blog post: Spilhaus World Ocean Map
• started drafting up a new About page for my website (I’ve just had placeholder text there for a few years now…)
• started shopping for proper storage for my atlases and maps collection
• signed up for OpenStreetMap!

And some more words about a few of those…

As part of the Esri Cartography MOOC I’m doing just now, I made this Spilhaus World Ocean Map in one of the exercises.

I’ve been using ArcGIS for the first time in the last couple of weeks and I’ve come across the Swipe tool. My immediate thought was “oh that’s awesome” which was swiftly followed by “I wonder if QGIS has this as well?”

What are systems, processes, and tools?

Things I’ve gotten up to since my last weeknotes:

• continued the Esri Cartography MOOC
• started the Data Visualization Fundamentals and Best Practices from Observable
• tinkered with my website: playing with flex to tweak the layout
• tinkered with my website: created a shortcode for images that are drawings
• fixed the obsidian-remarkable plugin’s post-processing script

A few more words about each of those…

So I fell out of the habit of doing weeknotes for a few months there.

I was perusing auction listings the other day and spotted this: