- A second week of doing my own stuff; much of the same but a relaxing way to
spend a week as I get around to some things I’ve wanted to do for months,
- I started off by spending a day doing some workflow improvements:
- I switched from Magnet to Rectangle for macOS window management,
- Started the move to kitty, with a hurdle around first removing
base16 which I’d previously been using to handle colours. It worked
really well, but now I’ve learned more about ANSI colours I’ve found I can do
the bits I want manually …but I didn’t quite start on this yet,
- More Tailwind this week, finishing up the menu for the side project
I’ve been working on and then doing a little “accounts” view so there’s
something to see once you’re logged in,
- In implementing this accounts view (it’s a list of bank accounts a user
has), I used this as the opportunity to try out ViewComponent. I
found that it fit really nicely between being able to test drive a view and
not write a heavyweight feature/system test with the added advantage of
knowing that reusing components would be much easier in future,
- I switched gears at the end of the week to pick up some maintenance of a
project I started about four years ago for notifying you on library
releases and I never launched. It’s kinda not necessary now as GitHub does
have a native feature for it, but I’d wanted something to build on to track
a few other things so I picked it back up. I got it working again (I’d
broken the background jobs at some point), replaced Neat with CSS Grid
and then came up a with a short list of things to do to actually launch it,
- In my continuing discovery of Linux on the Desktop (with a barebones
Debian and i3), I learned about UEFI SecureBoot and signed a kernel
module, plus made both audio and the backlight keys work]. As I write this,
I still can’t quite copy and paste how I’d like,
- I always enjoy The Margins, a newsletter by Can Durak and Ranjan
Roy, but this weeks’ on how to consume news was particularly good,
- I’ve also been enjoying reading the Tailscale blog and
this on how they traverse NAT was really interesting.