Saturday Afternoon

It’s a peaceful Saturday afternoon, and I like the slight sore in my back from my morning workout. It’s very weird to start with a novel-like sentence, I may be influenced by Haruki’s style from Kafka on the Shore which I finished a few days ago. There are three french looking men at the table in front of me sharing one laptop, probably talking about some startup idea—I like that they are talking softly even outside. Sitting at a table on a balcony at a local cafe, I’m writing a blog post while creating my personal website where I hope to host it. These two tasks are pretty related, because I want my website to show who I am, which exactly suits as a topic for my first article.

I have a sense of design, when it comes to visual work that can be done relatively comfortably, say with my hands resting on a desk. I have a strict sense of which fonts suits which backgrounds and what book covers are well made or not, for example. But I’m bad at work that occupies some space, like confguring furnitures for my room, not to mention it interests me. Anyway, I figured out that this ability is pretty rare in my field, software engineering, and I found myself building interactive interfaces in my work and research.

My claude code agent reports that it had finished a basic implementation of my website. Pretty plain for now. How should my blog look like? First of all, I have to decide which font I would like to use. I always find fonts very important, whether it is for my project, for a book, or for an advertisement on the wall. You know when you look at a word for quite a long time, the word feels strangely unfamiliar? That’s because we often accept things without questioning, and unquestioning the meaning of symbols is pretty reasonable. Questionless is fine, but it prevents you from the joy of discovering surprises. These days, I’ve mostly been relying on the treadmill for running and it had become a near equivalent to cardio. However, my friend who often joins my workout said he never runs in the gym. That’s when I started running outdoors, and it feels much, much better. Running inside the gym was convenient, but by chasing convenience I lost the joy of running and didn’t even notice. This also taught me the importance of being surrounded by people, ideas that are different from you. Plus it is best when those ideas come from people who you care about, since it increases the probability that you wouldn’t disregard it.

Writing while coding up something light is actually quite a joy, I should do this more often.