🗓️ Weeknote 2024-W40

2024-10-06 19:00

Some random front-of-mind pieces from my week.

Bit of a short one today. About to pick up old man from the airport. I have a lot of family and friends visiting over the next month, and I'm back at work, so I may get a bit quiet.

🏃 Ran 50.7km / 778m profile

A bit light and flat this week. There was a lot of rain, and I wanted an easy week before heading back to work next week.

🚴 Rode 29.85km / 446m

🩸 Health

I can safely say my head is in a better place. I've done a lot of reflection and resetting of a whole lot of imbalances. It is still going to be challenging at work for a while yet, but I feel like I'll be able to handle things a bit better now, rather than a few weeks back where I was spiralling hard.

🌧️ It rained A LOT.

🌱 Did some weeding down at the allotment.

💻 The Odin Project - Finished the Flexbox module. Made a site using flexing, which looks pretty good in a browser, but it doesn't have responsive design for mobiles. Onto javascript next.

🥃 I've ordered a new scoby to get started making kombucha again.

💻 New tools

I've spent a bit of time in the terminal this week. Guess I'm starting to feel a bit more comfortable.

• buku - Revisited this CLI bookmark manager after my linkdump the other week reminded me I've got links scattered everywhere. I started by pulling all the links from that post into the database. I asked ChatGPT to convert the markdown text in the buku format, and add appropriate tags, which it did a pretty good job at, then I could import them with $ buku -i bookmarks.md. I'm also working on a workflow to spit out buku bookmarks into a Linkroll page and update weekly.

• tut - This is a Mastodon client for the terminal. Saw it and toot floating around a bit so finally thought I'd give it a go. I'm trying to build some healthier habits around socials and this is perfect, removing all the attractive UIs and encouraging more purposeful navigating. I styled it to my liking (which personally I think is even more attractive..) and deleted Phanpy from my phone. The interactions feel a bit more one-to-one which is nice. I tried toot first, but couldn't get the media to show. tut is working great, with feh as my media-viewer. I like how it doesn't load the images unless I ask it too (by pressing "m").

• helix - This is a very advanced text editor (for me), like Vim, Neovim or Kakoune. I am just experimenting at this stage. Not entirely sure if I need to go down this path, but it is showing me what's possible. What grabbed me was this demo which combined file exploring, text editing and git commands. Note though he's using a combo of helix, zellij, yazi and lazygit to do this. There is a tutorial inside helix which steps you through all the basics. I found that in itself was fun, almost like a game.

🎧 Listening to...

• Podcast Darknet Diaries - 150: mobman 2 - Two people both claiming to be 'mobman', the author of the sub7 malware from the 90s. The host gets them both on a call to nut it out. It was a bit cringey, but I found it interesting listening to how the fake mobman handled the conversation. I do hope that he can move on in a healthy way.

• Rain songs - Because it was raining a lot I thought I'd find some rain songs in my library.

📺 Watched Kilian Jornet's Into the Unknown - trailer - Kilian runs the mountains for all the right reasons. He picks the most amazing routes. This flick follows his 8 day epic through the Pyrenees range. The ridge scrambling is top notch.

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