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1 --- 2 title: "Weeknote for 2025-W01" 3 description: "Things I learned or read in the last week" 4 date: 2024-12-30T07:59:00-08:00 5 draft: false 6 categories: 7 - Weeknotes 8 --- 9 10 [Henry Leach --- Lego Trains on Brio 11 Track](https://www.henryleach.com/2023/05/lego-trains-on-brio-track) 12 13 My youngest child is three and obsessed with the toys in question, so when 14 Henry posted a picture of a train made of LEGO-style plastic bricks running 15 on Brio-style wooden tracks, I had to know his secret. Fortunately for me, 16 he had already blogged about it a whole year ago! 17 18 [Brandon Rohrer --- Write an HTTP client in 19 Python](https://www.brandonrohrer.com/http_client) 20 21 Sometimes you need to make a program interact with the rest of the internet. 22 Working with web data can be easy in R since so many of the base functions 23 can just take a URL as an argument (and handle the hard parts for you). For 24 more complicated stuff, I use the [curl](https://jeroen.r-universe.dev/curl) 25 or [httr2](https://httr2.r-lib.org/) packages. But regardless of the 26 language you use, this is a great intro. Almost worth it for the [HTTP 27 Status Dogs](https://httpstatusdogs.com/) alone! 28 29 [Winnie Lim --- A Small Life](https://winnielim.org/journal/a-small-life/) 30 31 My experiences over the past couple of years don’t exactly match those of 32 the author of this piece, but there’s enough resemblance for it to have 33 resonated with me. In my case, I moved across the country around the same 34 time that I started [deleting my accounts on the biggest social media 35 platforms]({{< relref "/posts/social-media" >}}), which drastically shrank 36 my life. But the things that I’m looking to get out of my time on the 37 internet---heck, what I want out of _life_---have changed a lot over the 38 past decade, and I suspect that this is more common a sentiment than is 39 being discussed.