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Interactive Developer • Information Graphic Designer • D-Rank Adventurous Creative • dsriseah.com/about/sri • 🏳️‍⚧️•🏳️‍🌈•🇹🇼
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BUILD 20/30: A Mythical Magical Adventure Cat Primer
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/1112/
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I used the new Affinity App to make a one-page primer about "magical adventure cats"; they are a narrative device I use for personal development.
Screenshot of the Affinity App, depicting a landscape aspect page with the words THE MYSTERIOUS MAGICAL ADVENTURE CAT and a column of text to the right.
November 12, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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BUILD 19/30: Calendar Day Drawing Progress
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/1110/
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Progress on drawing the Word Counting Calendar programmatically from parameter data. Getting closer!
A title image that says DAY 19, showing 6 rows of 8 calendar days numbered from 01 to 48, each a different color.
November 10, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Skip Day 02! Minimum Progress Despite Nausea
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/1107/
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Another skip day, but I managed to add janky word count labels to the PDF renderer then passed out. Bonus thoughts on momentum and loving the journey.
A pot of porridge for sick day consumption.
November 8, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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BUILD 18/30: Programatic Drawing of Word Counting Calendar Blocks
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/1106/
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Today's progress on the 30 Day Build Challenge is using code to draw a "Pyramid Block" for the Word Counting Calendar! Getting closer!
Screenshot of Visual Studio Code depicting source code that draws a pyramid of 10 blocks, stacked four rows high with debugging guidelines to verify alignment.
November 6, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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BUILD 17/30: A PDF-LIB Reference
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/1105/
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Today's sharepiece is the start of a PDF-LIB API cheatsheet. Info is reorganized into functional groups instead of a useless alphabetical listing.
A sketch of a stroked box with dimension information in points beside it.
November 6, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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Skip Day Blog Post! Doctor Visits and Voting
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/1104/
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A daytrip to Concord, followed by voting in the midterms and a reward meal. No energy left, so I'm declaring today a SKIP DAY of blogging instead of building.
Several kinds of gourmet donuts on individual cake trays, a delicious variety of filled donuts, crullers, and cronuts.
November 5, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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BUILD 16/30: Articulating Friendship
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/1103/
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I wrote a working definition of friendship, as I understand it, after being inspired by K-Pop Demon Hunters this weekend.
A scene from K-Pop Demon Hunters with the three main characters Mira, Rumi, and Zoey about to face down the final boss of the demon world, united in friendship and accepting of their imperfections.
November 4, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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BUILD 15/30: Super Simple PDF Progress
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/1031/
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I'm not feeling well today, so I just ported the minimum PDF page generation code to refamiliarize myself with pdf-lib. Notes follow.
Adobe Acrobat interface displaying a very simple PDF with text 'FORM.WCC-01' and copyright information drawn inside light blue page margin
October 31, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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BUILD 14/30: Calendar Layout Code Progress
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/1030/
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Working on the Word Counting Calendar layout code. Slow going! I share the drawing code parameterization process.
Title image showing calendar layout sketch for checkboxes, progress cards, and handwritten layout notes for parameter sizing and field types.
October 31, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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Build 13/30: Word Counting Calendar Interim Release
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/1029/
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I posted the interim Word Counting Calendar for November so writers had something to use while I get my software moving. It's going slowly.
The November 2025 word counting calendar has places for filling in daily and weekly word counts, making it easy to gauge pacing of your writing.
October 30, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Still making Word Counting Calendars for Novel Writing Months!
davidseah.com/node/nanowri...
The 2025 Word Counting Calendar for November! Track 50,000 words over 30 days using visual graphing day-by-day with weekly counts to see how far ahead/behind you are
October 29, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Build 12/30: Word Counting Calendar Reboot
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/1028/
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The old NaNoWriMo org is dead, but there's still demand for Word Counting Calendars! I made a placeholder pdf, and will write software to generate them for the rest of this week.
screenshot of code generating calendars and pdfs
October 28, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Build 11/30: Unprofessional Business Cards
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/1027/
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Rather than make a business card with my title and areas of expertise, I wanted something that conveyed what interactions I warm up to.
Photo of computer screen with magnified designs of personal calling cards
October 27, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Build 10/30: A Silly Pass at Logo Design
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/1024/
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An logo design experiment for farmer's market vendor who needs a business card. We start with some associative questions, and look for the silly parts.
title picture depicts a scanner being fed with a paper sketch depicting a complicated process diagram
October 24, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Build 09/30: ETP Mini Notebook Printing Press Tour
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/1023/
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I check on the progress of The ETP 5885 Mini Notebook at the local commercial printer that makes them. This production run will be the last on Amazon Marketplace.
Title photo shows a closeup of a test sheet used to calibrate the Heidelberg Offset Press
October 23, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Build 08/30: Activity Bingo Form Progress (part 2)
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/1022/
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I took the last revision of the "activity bingo board" and adjusted it to fit within A4 width, then normalized type sizes and dimensions. I also added C-rank quests.
A table showing a refined version of the Activity Bingo Board. It has 5 rows ranked from D to S and 6 columns across forming a grid of colored blocks with the names of activities in them.
October 22, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Build 07/30: Restart ETP Notebooks Production
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/1021/
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I have the final run of 1000 ETP Mini Notebooks in production, but the front cover insert needed name and link updates. Tried Affinity Designer for press-ready work for the first time.
Screenshot of Affinity Designer editing the Mini ETP Front Sheet insert for packaging.
October 21, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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Build 06/30: Workshopping the 'Activity Bingo' Form (part 1)
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/1020/
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I'm focusing on creating new design work this week, testing Affinity Design as a replacement for Adobe Illustrator. In Part 1, I work through what an "Activity Bingo [...]
A computer monitor displaying a colorful grid of options for an Activity Bingo Board design, inside of Affinity Designer
October 21, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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Build 05/30: Productivity Energy Crash Day
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/1017/
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Today's sharepiece details an unexpected energy crash after four good days of productivity. Was it ADHD? Lack of sleep? Or did I just overdo it?
Productivity Energy Crash: A dark gray forboding sky
October 18, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Build 04/30: Eleventy Templates for Atom Feeds
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/1016/
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I wanted my autoposts to Mastodon and Bluesky to have a single image, not all the images. Today's sharepiece is the Eleventy code I hacked up with a nice XSL stylesheet.
3 columns of web pages showing blog posts, demonstrating how an XML feed can be styled in the browser by XSL.
October 17, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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Build 03/30: Reviewing Old Work and Stories
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/1015/
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Restarting my design business means new business cards and a logo. I have a good idea what's important to me NOW, but it's very different from my PAST identity work. I review old work to look [...]
October 16, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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Day 3 of a push to reboot my design practice by making crap! I’m going to shift from voice to visual design today. After fixing stupid encoding issues in my site feed output.
October 15, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Build 02/30: TypeScript Mini Apps in Eleventy
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/1014/
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I added "mini web app" functionality for my Eleventy template pages. I can create individual Typescript source files inside a project directory that works with live-reloading.
screenshot of Eleventy template and TypeScript source resulting in rendered page Eleventy html template, showing markdown and html script tags TypeScripts source file to be run by the Eleventy html template Page on dsriseah.com showing the script in day02.ts running inside of day02.html template
October 15, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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Build 01/30: A Web App Template
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/1013/
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I'm starting a 30 Day Building Challenge to build and share something every day to help get my design business restarted. I'm not exactly sure what the business will look like, but today's exploration [...]
screenshot of terminal output and github repo
October 14, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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Making Operational Diagrams for Motivation
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/1006/
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This month I have been rebooting my 2010-era design practice, and there's many moving parts. I've been making a set of maps to help me visualize tasks with my current understanding of The Sri [...]
A diagram of category boxes covering software, infrastructure, and personal project interests. A fanciful diagram showing how my motivation to do tasks are intertwined with my emotional core.
October 6, 2025 at 9:01 PM