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DSri Seah (they/them)
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Interactive Developer • Information Graphic Designer • D-Rank Adventurous Creative • dsriseah.com/about/sri • 🏳️‍⚧️•🏳️‍🌈•🇹🇼
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Skip Week! Thanksgiving Staycation
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/1126/
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The holiday season is here! Taking a week-long break to let my relax by not having to make something every day.
Trees with fall folliage reached up toward a clear blue sky
November 26, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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BUILD 27/30: Short Productive Sprint Day
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/1125/
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I used athering-style productivity today, as deep work wasn't possible while waiting for a phone call from my mechanic.
A Pantone Color Bridge guide fanned open, showing dozens of blue-to-fuschia hues in swatches with their color mixing information.
November 26, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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BUILD 26/30: Experimental Collaboration
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/1124/
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We are doing a "Freelancer Coworking" experiment in the DS|CAFE Discord server for a week. Will it give isolated freelancers a sense of support?
A puzzled cat on a book cover called 'Changing Stuff and Seeing What Happens' from O RLY, next to a sketch of labeled 'The Public Square'
November 25, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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BUILD 25/30: Personal Cards Revisited
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/1120/
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A quickie "personal card" design will give me something to hand out to people I meet. It emphasizes personal warmth on the front, and data on the back.
Layout of DSRISEAH card saying 'is a cheerful designer and chatty programmer' on one side, and with skills and contact information on the other
November 20, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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BUILD 24/30: Mini ETP Production Update!
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/1119/
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A 5.8x8.5 inch Emergent Task Planner notebook, shrinkwrapped, held in a hand by the edge to show it off
November 19, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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BUILD 23/30: Alpha Word Counting Calendar!
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/1118/
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Today's sharepiece is the minimum viable prototype for the Word Counting Calendar. Grab the November and December 2025 prototypes.
Screenshot of Visual Studio Code showing source code fragments and the rendered December 2025 Word Counting Calendar
November 19, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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Skip Day 03! A Restorative Visit to the North Shore
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/1117/
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Skip Day! I tagged along with my buddy Sid to visit The Brickyard Collaborative, a makerspace in Lynn. Roast beefs were also had!
The woodworking shop of The Brickyard Collaborative in Lynn, MA
November 18, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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BUILD 22/30: Calendar Labeling and Space Filling
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/1114/
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Added new layout elements to the Word Counting Calendar code generator. It's coming along! Still need to implement variable data and conditional layout.
Title image is a screenshot of Visual Studio Code, showing javascript code fragements alongside a preview of the generated PDF output
November 14, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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BUILD 21/30: Correct Calendar Layout Progress
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/1113/
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Today's sharepiece is progress rendering calendar cells for each month in the right places. Still missing the Word Counting Calendar data! That's next!
A screenshot of Adobe Acrobat Reader, showing individual pages of the test calendar month output for the Word Counting Calendar
November 14, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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BUILD 20/30: A Mythical Magical Adventure Cat Primer
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/1112/
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I used the new Affinity App to make a one-page primer about "magical adventure cats"; they are a narrative device I use for personal development.
Screenshot of the Affinity App, depicting a landscape aspect page with the words THE MYSTERIOUS MAGICAL ADVENTURE CAT and a column of text to the right.
November 12, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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BUILD 19/30: Calendar Day Drawing Progress
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/1110/
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Progress on drawing the Word Counting Calendar programmatically from parameter data. Getting closer!
A title image that says DAY 19, showing 6 rows of 8 calendar days numbered from 01 to 48, each a different color.
November 10, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Skip Day 02! Minimum Progress Despite Nausea
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/1107/
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Another skip day, but I managed to add janky word count labels to the PDF renderer then passed out. Bonus thoughts on momentum and loving the journey.
A pot of porridge for sick day consumption.
November 8, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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BUILD 18/30: Programatic Drawing of Word Counting Calendar Blocks
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/1106/
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Today's progress on the 30 Day Build Challenge is using code to draw a "Pyramid Block" for the Word Counting Calendar! Getting closer!
Screenshot of Visual Studio Code depicting source code that draws a pyramid of 10 blocks, stacked four rows high with debugging guidelines to verify alignment.
November 6, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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BUILD 17/30: A PDF-LIB Reference
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/1105/
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Today's sharepiece is the start of a PDF-LIB API cheatsheet. Info is reorganized into functional groups instead of a useless alphabetical listing.
A sketch of a stroked box with dimension information in points beside it.
November 6, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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Skip Day Blog Post! Doctor Visits and Voting
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/1104/
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A daytrip to Concord, followed by voting in the midterms and a reward meal. No energy left, so I'm declaring today a SKIP DAY of blogging instead of building.
Several kinds of gourmet donuts on individual cake trays, a delicious variety of filled donuts, crullers, and cronuts.
November 5, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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BUILD 16/30: Articulating Friendship
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/1103/
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I wrote a working definition of friendship, as I understand it, after being inspired by K-Pop Demon Hunters this weekend.
A scene from K-Pop Demon Hunters with the three main characters Mira, Rumi, and Zoey about to face down the final boss of the demon world, united in friendship and accepting of their imperfections.
November 4, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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BUILD 15/30: Super Simple PDF Progress
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/1031/
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I'm not feeling well today, so I just ported the minimum PDF page generation code to refamiliarize myself with pdf-lib. Notes follow.
Adobe Acrobat interface displaying a very simple PDF with text 'FORM.WCC-01' and copyright information drawn inside light blue page margin
October 31, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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BUILD 14/30: Calendar Layout Code Progress
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/1030/
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Working on the Word Counting Calendar layout code. Slow going! I share the drawing code parameterization process.
Title image showing calendar layout sketch for checkboxes, progress cards, and handwritten layout notes for parameter sizing and field types.
October 31, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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Build 13/30: Word Counting Calendar Interim Release
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/1029/
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I posted the interim Word Counting Calendar for November so writers had something to use while I get my software moving. It's going slowly.
The November 2025 word counting calendar has places for filling in daily and weekly word counts, making it easy to gauge pacing of your writing.
October 30, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Still making Word Counting Calendars for Novel Writing Months!
davidseah.com/node/nanowri...
The 2025 Word Counting Calendar for November! Track 50,000 words over 30 days using visual graphing day-by-day with weekly counts to see how far ahead/behind you are
October 29, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Build 12/30: Word Counting Calendar Reboot
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/1028/
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The old NaNoWriMo org is dead, but there's still demand for Word Counting Calendars! I made a placeholder pdf, and will write software to generate them for the rest of this week.
screenshot of code generating calendars and pdfs
October 28, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Build 11/30: Unprofessional Business Cards
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/1027/
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Rather than make a business card with my title and areas of expertise, I wanted something that conveyed what interactions I warm up to.
Photo of computer screen with magnified designs of personal calling cards
October 27, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Build 10/30: A Silly Pass at Logo Design
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/1024/
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An logo design experiment for farmer's market vendor who needs a business card. We start with some associative questions, and look for the silly parts.
title picture depicts a scanner being fed with a paper sketch depicting a complicated process diagram
October 24, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Build 09/30: ETP Mini Notebook Printing Press Tour
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/1023/
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I check on the progress of The ETP 5885 Mini Notebook at the local commercial printer that makes them. This production run will be the last on Amazon Marketplace.
Title photo shows a closeup of a test sheet used to calibrate the Heidelberg Offset Press
October 23, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Build 08/30: Activity Bingo Form Progress (part 2)
https://dsriseah.com/journal/2025/1022/
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I took the last revision of the "activity bingo board" and adjusted it to fit within A4 width, then normalized type sizes and dimensions. I also added C-rank quests.
A table showing a refined version of the Activity Bingo Board. It has 5 rows ranked from D to S and 6 columns across forming a grid of colored blocks with the names of activities in them.
October 22, 2025 at 8:16 PM