Got bored, updated my blog theme, will likely do so again soon.
Got bored, updated my blog theme, will likely do so again soon.
I like to talk a lot. Not using my mouth, but with my keyboard. I like writing. I feel like I have a lot to share.
But my problem is that I have a lot of things going on in my head. I have a lot to say about a lot of things.
Strangely enough, that means I write a lot less than I want to.
I have urges to write about nearly every aspect of my life. Whether it’s my personal experiences, working as a software engineer, reacting to news in the industry, or just commentary on life. But I feel like this can’t all live in the same place. And it’s probably suited to different audiences.
Some people like to write essays, others prefer a very informal micro blog, then there are people who just maintain blogs on technical topics, a big chunk of people enjoy posting to social media, there are personal bloggers, topical bloggers, the list is endless. They each come with different formats, audiences, suitable platforms, etc.
My problem is that I want to do it all.
I want a personal blog, I want a blog for technology opinions, I want another for more refined essays, I want to also have a super frequent micro blog, and I’m sure there are more. With each of these comes friction. Should I keep it on one blog? One domain? How do I somehow connect everything together? Does it matter? Does my writing need to live forever?
I go through phases in my life where my opinions just flip like a switch. Then at some later point, they switch back.
Maybe it doesn’t matter.
In fact, I’m nearly certain it doesn’t.
Maybe I should just keep writing, about everything, everywhere.
I have an obsession with blogging platforms. Whenever one that seems interesting, it sparks something that makes me want to instantly create another blog.
This time it was Pagecord. Looks like a great way to create a blog. pagecord.com
I wrote about how it’s not worth upgrading from my M1 MacBook Pro. But there is one scenario in which I could buy an additional Mac. That would be if Apple brought back the MacBook.
I’d love a 12" MacBook running some kind of M chip that I could use when travelling or when I’m doing simple tasks.
The Pixel 8a is tempting
I’m never really a fan of covers, but Royel Otis' cover of Linger by The Cranberries is incredible. Feels like going back to the 90s/00s. www.youtube.com/watch
I think my Mac is becoming more and more “linux inspired” by the day. I’ve got yabai installed as my tiled window manager, alacritty as my terminal, dmenu-mac as my application launcher, and I also live in the terminal using tmux, neovim, and a bunch of custom scripts. What’s next?
I’ve been playing around with bash scripts today. Most recent is one that uses fzf to list alacritty themes, and then lets me change it without editing the config file manually.
It’s saturday, and I’ve got nothing to do until Arsenal play in around 8 hours. So I’m pretty sure that means I’m going to have to build something. What I want, is a quick way to post a micro post to my eleventy blog via the CLI. But I’m not sure what route to go down. A complex shell script? Maybe a custom Neovim plugin, or go all out and build a tool that uses the GitHub REST API?
I made the switch to alacritty today. Feels much better than iTerm 2. I much prefer having static config files to a preferences pane.
Day 6: windy
Just spent some time improving pst (https://github.com/chrishannah/pst), it now supports drafts and published posts. Example command: pst draft "hello, world".
It’s still only available to install via cargo, so I need to get it on something like homebrew soon.
Day 5: serene
Quick tip for anyone that appreciates the SF Mono font but also wants the Nerd Fonts icons, someone has created “SF-Mono-Nerd-Font”! github.com/epk/SF-Mo…
I forgot to post a photo for the photo challenge yesterday, I should catch up today though!
Day 4: foliage
Day 3: card
Day 2: flowers
How has pst got >200 downloads already?
Day 1: toy
This is what publishing a post using pst currently looks like (it only posts drafts at the moment).
I’ve only spent a day writing rust, but I’m already really enjoying it. If I continue with it for a while longer, I want to really understand things like the borrow checker, and more of the rust-specifics that I haven’t encountered yet. But for small/simple command-line tools, it seems great!
Come watch me try to play some WoW Plunderstorm www.twitch.tv/chrishann…
I’ve just pushed my new mini-project ‘pst’ to GitHub! It’s going to be a simple cli tool to publish posts to Micro.blog, and I’m also using it to learn some Rust. github.com/chrishann…
I didn’t think creating a Micro.blog post from a simple cli tool in Rust would be so simple.
