Weeknotes: An Intention
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I’d like to begin publishing weeknotes. I’m not sure if it’s something that will stick long term, but I’m interested in giving it a spin since it supports me writing more and learning in public. If this is the first you’re hearing of weeknotes, then I’d recommend giving doingweeknotes.com a skim as I found it a great reference.
Specifically, I’ve been reading Jacky’s weeknotes and recently read Tracy’s post on them after coming across Colin’s post in my RSS reader. When I worked at Mattermost, Zef posted a sort of company-wide weeknotes newsletter, mostly focused on the platform side which is probably why it was called The Platformer. There’s still some live on dev.to. Phew, I think I linked everyone and everything correctly there.
Some technical bits about how I want to do this:
- Each weeknote goes into a
/posts/weeknotes/directory in my Blot site- This is intentionally different from my preexisting strategy where each post lives in a
/posts/YYYY/directory for the year it was published
- This is intentionally different from my preexisting strategy where each post lives in a
- I’ll use the ISO 8601 format, e.g.
2024-W36for this week- Weird fact: the first week of the year is the one with a Thursday
- I’ll aim to publish on Sunday or Monday (ISO 8601 says the first day of the week is Monday 😉)
- I created a
weeknotes.shscript to help in generating the ISO 8601 compliant string 🤓
In terms of content, I’m not completely sure yet. I think it’ll read a bit closer to a journal than say, a “typical” post. In general, I’d like to cover what I’ve read, written, and done. Restated in overly technical terms: input, output, and side effects. 🙃
Otherwise, I’m looking forward to seeing how this goes. More of a coincidence in timing than anything really, but this lines up nicely with final trimester of the year. At the very least, I’m hoping to get coverage for Q4 2024. And one final note, mostly to myself: if you miss weeks or overall this doesn’t end up sticking long term, that’s OK.
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