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Author: Eamon Caddigan <eamon.caddigan@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2024 15:28:25 -0800
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+title: "Weeknote for 2025-W01"
+description: "Things I learned or read in the last week"
+date: 2024-12-30T07:59:00-08:00
+draft: false
+categories:
+- Weeknotes
+---
+
+[Henry Leach --- Lego Trains on Brio
+Track](https://www.henryleach.com/2023/05/lego-trains-on-brio-track)
+
+My youngest child is three and obsessed with the toys in question, so when
+Henry posted a picture of a train made of LEGO-style plastic bricks running
+on Brio-style wooden tracks, I had to know his secret. Fortunately for me,
+he had already blogged about it a whole year ago!
+
+[Brandon Rohrer --- Write an HTTP client in
+Python](https://www.brandonrohrer.com/http_client)
+
+Sometimes you need to make a program interact with the rest of the internet.
+Working with web data can be easy in R since so many of the base functions
+can just take a URL as an argument (and handle the hard parts for you). For
+more complicated stuff, I use the [curl](https://jeroen.r-universe.dev/curl)
+or [httr2](https://httr2.r-lib.org/) packages. But regardless of the
+language you use, this is a great intro. Almost worth it for the [HTTP
+Status Dogs](https://httpstatusdogs.com/) alone!
+
+[Winnie Lim --- A Small Life](https://winnielim.org/journal/a-small-life/)
+
+My experiences over the past couple of years don’t exactly match those of
+the author of this piece, but there’s enough resemblance for it to have
+resonated with me. In my case, I moved across the country around the same
+time that I started [deleting my accounts on the biggest social media
+platforms]({{< relref "/posts/social-media" >}}), which drastically shrank
+my life. But the things that I’m looking to get out of my time on the
+internet---heck, what I want out of _life_---have changed a lot over the
+past decade, and I suspect that this is more common a sentiment than is
+being discussed.
