What I'm Whatevering Wednesday: 2019.07.10

First—I apologize that I haven't been replying to comments, I'm in a sort of... kudos-only-available-social-spoon brainspace, but thank you to everyone who has been saying nice things in my WIWW posts (and elsewhere). ♥

I actually got through quite a bit more of last week's combined WIWW/long weekend to-do list post than I ticked off—I just wasn't at a computer consistently. I also feel like that was either eleven minutes or forty-seven years ago, or possibly, somehow simultaneously both, so—this week's WIWW is therefore somewhat nonstandard in format. But here are this week's greatest hits:

( Re: work [short]. )

( Re: dog [very long]. )

( Re: writing [medium]. )

( Re: reading/watching [short]. )

Re: checklists:
(short-ish and also I think possibly of wider interest, so it's not behind a cut)

Last time, jesse_the_k asked how I did my checklists—tbh, they're really low-tech; I'm just using the Unicode "ballot box" sequence, and entering them as HTML entities:

• ☐ is "☐" and I use it for pending/actively in progress
• ☑ is "☑" and I use it for done
• ☒ is "☒" and I use it for deferred or in progress but waiting (e.g., I had to send an email and do something with the response, and I've sent the email but I haven't gotten the response, so I can't do anything with it yet).

...then I edit the post as I go. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I really wish Unicode had a ballot-box-with-line-through-it, but they don't, so ☒ is the next best thing. The only thing I really don't like about this sequence is that ballot-box-with-checkmark renders as an emoji on (many) phones and the other two don't (there is an unchecked-ballot-box emoji, but on my phone, at least, only the checked version automatically loads from the unicode). This is visually unsatisfying but not something I have a my-end fix for, so I roll with it. I don't ever remember the numerical codes, but I do remember the sequence (i.e., numerically it goes: unchecked, checked, x-ed out), but the magical phrase to search for is "unicode ballot box"—that'll turn up the unchecked version, and then you can either search for "with check" or "with x" or just remember the sequence the way I do.

This post took me basically 1.5 hours to write 98% of, and another 4.5 hours to finish previewing it and checking my HTML in 30-second bursts while I waited for tests to run. *ongoing glazed stare*