If you don't mind, could you reply to this toot with something you have accomplished recently? Work, hobby, whatever, but especially if it's something fiddly and technical that required quiet contemplation or problem solving.
Right now my feed is flooded with the omni-catastrophe even more than it was in, like, March of 2020, and I just want (and suspect we could all use) some reminders that progress is still happening and being effective is still possible
@glyph I left a job about 6 months ago that was draining my energy. To try to get my enthusiasm for my work back, I set myself a challenge - to figure out how small an encoder for a modern video compression standard can be.
And not only did I succeed at answering that question, it did bring my enthusiasm back, and now I'm partway through writing up what I did: https://www.rachelplusplus.me.uk/blog/2025/01/lets-build-an-avif-encoder-part-0/