🗓️ Weeknote 2025-W08
2025-02-23 21:55
Some random front-of-mind pieces from my week.
🏃 Ran 45.7km / 2,750m profile - A bit less in the distance this week, but a lot more in the effort. It was fun to start some last minute event-specific training for next Saturday's no-frills race up Ben Lomond and back. If you keep track of my elevation profiles I post each week into the header of the website, you'll notice I'm quite partial to hills. This week was no different. The groovy looking dragons-back part in the middle of this one was a 10x 3min hill rep session. It hurt like buggery, but it was very satisfying. I find a discreet hill for these ones so not to freak people out with all my heaving and grimacing.
📚 Started reading Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin. Enjoying this lighter read about two characters whose friendship revolves around video games - playing and making of. Early days yet, but I like the writing. Check out the link above for a cool small pixel-art clip that summarises the first couple of chapters.
☀️🥶 We had some cooler mornings this week, which was a nice reprieve, but afternoons quickly got stinking hot, and now it's just hot again. I like this time of year.
💻 After a stint with light-mode, I've gone back to the dark side (except for my RSS reader, which I prefer light as I read it out n about a bit in the sun sometimes). I'm using papercolor-dark mode in my text-editor helix, which I find really funky. I particularly like the light-green wildmenu popup colour:
Screenshot of zellij multiplexer with Helix open on the left, and lazygit, yazi and zola serve running on the right
💻 Speaking of helix, I tried to build in a script or macro to modify my "updated" date properties of the TOML headers of my blog posts for when I actually update them. I couldn't quite get it entirely internal, but I'm using the :sh command to run an external shell script that does it using sed, then I run :rl to reload the open document. It is quick enough for me.
As timely as ever, Lazybear's I ❤ shortcuts #4: Get everything from your editor post popped up, which inspired me to play around with scratch buffers, pickers, and horizontal and vertical split views.
I'm pretty blown away with what a text editor can do. I've never used Vi, Vim or Neovim, but from what I've heard, helix is a great stepping stone into these types of text editors, being slightly more user-friendly. I've seen a lot of posts on emacs too which I'm avoiding like the plague because I reckon it'd be a rabbit-hole I'll never climb out of, and really it's not like I'm doing anything that requires it. Looks fun though...
💻 Tools
- durdraw - An ASCII art editor for the terminal. Supports mouse-mode, different colour schemes, symbol pickers, and has some nice keyboard bindings which I could pick up fairly quickly. Having a bit of fun here. This is my first ever (still in draft):
📺 Watching Ghost in the Shell (1995) - Got halfway through last night. Loving it. Off to watch the rest now while torturing myself on the foam roller.
🕸️ What grabbed me across the web?