Languishing

“Looking for bliss in a blah day” — Adam Grant

Weekend project update 2: simple URL shortening

Yesterday’s work was mostly focused on routing, getting the app set up, and making sure my environment is working. Today’s goal was to get the URL shortening working and that was pretty easy. I used basic crypto hashing to generate the short URL and then chopped it off.

Weekend project progress: routes for Larri

This morning, I started working on a simple weekend project in which the goal is a deployed API server that does one simple thing. The business logic and the API behavior isn’t too important to me because the focus of this project is actually learning more about deployment. So

TIL: null is an object in Javascript

I’ve been in a lull about learning concepts related to programming and web development the past few months so yesterday when I got an email about Just Javascript, I signed up for the course to check out how it will be. So far, I’m running into pleasant surprises

Is the Keychron Q1 a GMMK Pro dupe?

So I finished building my GMMK Pro last week (a writeup is in my drafts for that). I got an email from Keychron the same week I got my GMMK Pro shipped. I waited about 6 months after reserving the board to be able to buy the GMMK Pro so

TIL: polling rates for keyboards

I was setting up my GMMK Pro keyboard over the weekend and I ran into an interesting feature in the Glorious Core software, “polling rate” which is the first time I’ve seen this feature. I went looking around and from reddit I got linked to this Geekhack thread: Keyboard

An alternative icon for iTerm2

I created a simple icon for iTerm2 which I wanted to share below: You can download it on macos icons or directly here

Fields of Coral by Vangelis

I was recently reading Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis and in my mind, I could hear this song playing in the background as the ethereal world of Malacandra was described. I want to share it with you, maybe for sci-fi reading.

Line art practice

I’ve been practicing in the Procreate app:

Local .vimrc for neovim settings and differences

For directory-specific vim settings, you can use .vimrc but when using neovim, you’ll need to use .nvimrc instead. To get it all working, add the following to your init.nvim file: set exrc set secure Using set secure will disable/disallow using autocmd settings In the directory with vim

Running a local docker instance for Wordpress theme development

I wanted to update the Leaf theme (the one I’m currently using) and I haven’t had wordpress on my computer in a long time. Instead of going through the whole set up again, I decided to use docker for this. I wanted to keep the setup to a

TIL: using inv for any vim setting will invert it

For example: set number -> sets the line numbers set invnumber -> inverts the setting so line numbers are off now (or on if they were off)