Working toward believing I can replace the time I default to on the internet to... just reading books.

Candidates up for next book are:

• Authority, Vandermeer,
• For Whom the Bell Tolls, Hemingway
• Two Cheers for Anarchism, Scott

I'm wanting to lean back into more fiction and take a break from being depressed by the non-fiction I'm choosing.

I see less of actual function declarations in js codebases these days, and fat arrows stored to constants are more the norm. I still don't know why. Is this just a react-ism from the change to using hooks? This declaring of functions inside components also means that on each re-render the functions get re-declared, instead of once if those functions were at the top level.

In some codebases I've seen, you end up with many of these anonymous functions stored in constants, all of which rely on the scope of the react component, sort of as if it was a class (which it isn't, to confirm). This makes reading the actual component kind of tricky; I'd rather have top level, functional functions, outside of the react component, take in data, do something with it, and return data, but I hardly ever see this.

On a more petty note, it seems worth it alone to declare functions over constants to cut down on the visual noise while searching for symbols in my editor.

This book is depressing me.

Actually, I didn't find it, but my partner did, hidden behind some clothes in the back of the closet.

Note to self:

• Get a tracker for your wallet.
• Have more than one bank account and don't put the card for it in your wallet.
• Try not to be mad at yourself when you lose your wallet (again).

Fun night at the bike co-op tonight. Thursdays are for volunteers to go in, work on donated bikes, so that they can be sold to self-support the space. Tonight I met some new folks, and worked on an evo aluminum bike, replaced the brakes, and tried to unbend a derailleur that gets way to close to the spokes of the back wheel.

People were coming in to test ride bikes to buy. Spring is coming, folks.

I put up a new video on my bike youtube channel. This one was fun to make and involved much (delightful) trudging through a foot of snow in a beautiful park.

Last night, my nascent music club discussed Palace Music (Bonnie Prince Billy's) Arise Therefore. I wasn't super into this album at first. My listens felt like the album was marching along in the background (possibly the drum machine), and with moer warbling than I'm used to. Then, I listened to it while drawing and doing nothing else and I really liked it.

Just published a new video for Loud World Quiet Hour. An hour of walking in the woods.