Inspired by that, I had to draw my first map tile.

I watched this excellent documentary about Jerry Gretzinger who started drawing a fictional map in the 1960s and has made it into a brilliant art project.

Watching him work and explain his process got my mind racing with ideas.

https://nebula.tv/videos/people-make-games-the-man-whos-spent-a-lifetime-making-one-giant-map

I enjoyed @nikitonsky's recent post Every Frame Perfect about polishing the small details in animations to make them feel smooth and well thought out to the user

https://tonsky.me/blog/every-frame-perfect/

It's my entry for June 14th #Junited2026. Find all at https://notes.hamatti.org/writing/events/junited-2026#june-14th

I also got the chance to play this 2-player Lost Zone shared deck/lost zone/discard pile box that was super fun.

https://notes.hamatti.org/gaming/board-games/pokemon/pokemon-tcg-lost-zone-2-player-shared-deck-cube

#Pokemon #PokemonTCG #PlayPokemon

Today at league, we're having a 2017 PRC-GRI retro tournament. I'm 2-1 with Passimian right now and having a blast.

#Pokemon #PokemonTCG #PlayPokemon

This is sports entertainment at its best.

edit. to be specific, this is not a missing video feed. it's the darkness of the night. eventually, someone with a headlight emerges from the darkness.

I was in Jukola for the first time in 1993 when I was 5. (Not competing, mainly just running around the camp site.)

It was love at first sight and I've been watching it ever since every year.

The competition starts at 23 in the evening and runs until the morning. The competition is split to 7 legs between 7 and 16 kilometers for a total of 81.8 km.

It's been pouring rain for most of the day so the forest is gonna be damp and wet and slippery.

Jukola is the annual orienteering competition in Finland during a mid-June Finnish summer night and it's pretty much the best sports thing in the world.

Thousands of participants, everyone from the top of the world to people who go to forest once a year if even that, compete in the same relay competition.

The start, as pictured in the screencap below, is so beautiful. Almost 2000 athletes with headlights start to run into the forest.

I've had the pleasure of being there in-person twice.

RE: https://mastodon.art/@guilhernunes_/116743854807425535

😍

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal_Stories:_Mel

This one!

"Oh, a new Portal mod"

looks it up

"Released: 2015"

maybe not so new... but new to me!

#Portal

This week's been a lot of fun and a big part of that was our Future Frontend conference.

I wrote a recap of the event from my perspective, including four talk recommendations.

https://hamatti.org/posts/future-frontend-2026-recap/

#FutureFrontend #Frontend #blogging #blog

Are there any open source licenses that require the user to do a little happy dance every time they deploy or should I make my own?

#OpenSource #FOSS

This two year old fantastic blog post by @jimniels on the craft of software development and the parallels of iterating over a UI and sanding a woodwork popped onto my radar this week and I want you to see it too.

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2024/sanding-ui/

It's my June 13th entry to #Junited2026, see all at https://notes.hamatti.org/writing/events/junited-2026#june-13th

I should get this rare codeless code card PSA graded and sell for millions.

#PokemonTCG

One of the nice things about my smart home setup is that I get logs.

I was pretty sure someone (a maintenance person which was expected, just unknown when they'd come) had visited my home while I was gone because the physical light switch was off — which I don't use because of my smart home setup.

I realised I can go to my logs and see that indeed, someone spent exactly 20 minutes in my apartment this morning.

#SmartHome

Remember that the tiny ruby #{conf} #CFP closes in three days time. Don't leave it until the last minute or you might forget!

https://cfp.helsinkiruby.fi

#watercolour #watercolor #aquarelle #acuarela #aquarell #acquerello #aquarela #MastoArt #mastodon #art #artist #painting #drawing #illustration #paint #draw #animal #animals #Humor #goose #duck #Funny