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This is what I’ve settled on for my home screen after using iOS 14 and home screen widgets for a few months
What I Read in 2020 📚
After reading 37 books in 2019, I set myself what I thought was a comfortable goal of reading 24 books in 2020. Unfortunately, I didn’t reach my goal as I usually read during my commute, and I’ve been working from home since March. I ended up reading 13 books, which is not bad considering what a year it has been:
- And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie ★★★★☆
- Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? by Caitlin Doughty ★★★☆☆
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates ★★★★★
- Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang ★★★★☆
- The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler ★★★☆☆
- The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells ★★★☆☆
- The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton ★★★☆☆
- All Systems Red by Martha Wells ★★★★☆
- The Adventure Zone: Petals to the Metal by Clint McElroy ★★★★★
- Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World by Mark Miodownik ★★★★☆
- Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke ★★★★☆
- I Will Teach You to Be Rich by Ramit Sethi ★★★☆☆
- What If? by Randall Munroe ★★★★☆
These were my highlights:
- Favorite fiction book: The Adventure Zone: Petals to the Metal by Clint McElroy
- Favorite non-fiction book: Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Most thought-provoking book: Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke
- Least favorite book: Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? by Caitlin Doughty
If you want to see what I’m reading throughout the year then you can follow me on Goodreads.
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I captioned my best nine of 2019 with “An incredible year of travel in 2019. Let’s keep this going in 2020!”. So I’m sorry for jinxing it and won’t make the mistake of offering any predictions for 2021 this time
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I used Scriptable to build an iOS 14 home screen widget to display the air quality in my neighborhood 😷
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“Native lazy-loading…defers offscreen iframes from being loaded until the user scrolls near them. This saves data, speeds up the loading of other parts of the page, and reduces memory usage.” web.dev/iframe-lazy-loading/
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“If you use width: 100vw on a website, there’s a good chance the horizontal scrollbar is visible for many users…what you might not realize is that the viewport actually includes the scrollbars.” destroytoday.com/blog/100vw-and-the-horizontal-overflow-you-probably-didnt-know-about
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“So, is WebP better than JPEG?…Since most of the time WebP is used alongside JPEG fallback, by using WebP you will…double your storage costs with little benefit.” siipo.la/blog/is-webp-really-better-than-jpeg
