My weeknotes have been powered by my nightly journals. It's been a great system so far: I write down what I did and how I felt that day every night, and by the end of the week I have 7 days of material of go off of instead of my frankly unreliable memory. This week I wrote a total of zero daily journals. Nothing since last weekend was documented. The day has come where I must pull something out of my ass.

Work

• The last design team call was an intense one. Everyone in our little team of 4 designers was venting about company processes. I am able to see myself as a mid-level or senior designer now because I am able to understand not just how to design, but how to design within a company. I don't think designers having to manage more stakeholder communication is an open source specific phenomenon, but I think the lack of structured processes in open source projects exacerbate the phenomenon.
• The latest update on the Nim Learns To Code Again saga: I've found a rhythm with using AI to code, and that's to escape my own personal hell: navigating npm dependencies on Windows. As someone who wants to just get to their flex layouts I really don't care that I have the wrong version of eslint. Claude has been very patient in helping me figure it out. I almost want to thank ~~him~~ IT. I want to thank it (yikes). Once past that, I use the historic relics of my own brain and Stack Overflow to figure the rest out.

Not-work

• I have recently become interested in malleable software. I will not elaborate further because I understand nothing about it (yet).
• The reason I have neglected my daily journal for a whole week is because of how hectic my personal life has been. I have been doing emotional labour at my now third home in Delhi. It is interesting to witness childhood dynamics play out as a fully grown adult with agency. I am appreciating being able to reclaim my childhood identity as a mediator but with the wisdom and patience of an adult and the context of a family that is not the one I grew up with. There is no "good daughter", there are only actions and their consequences.
• I've also been struggling with gut issues for a few days. Food poisoning twice in 2 months set off some alarm bells but the doctor said it's just an infection and prescribed generic antibiotics as treatment. As a result I've been weak and nauseous for the past 3 days, with unlimited access to my phone and consequently WebMD. It's not been good 🤠

Discoveries

• The food scene in Delhi is unmatched. Bangalore feels like a sad village in comparison. Recommendations: Dahi kebab from Anardhana, Dum aloo from Punjab Bhavan, and the gnocchi at Genre. Yes, this don't sound good for my food poisoning complaints but like, let a girl live.

That wasn't so bad for a week with literally no daily notes. Maybe my notion that my memory is bad is outdated now (hooray!). Going back to recovering now. See you soon!