It’s already two days ago, but: happy May Day!
Also a happy birthday to Nanoc, whose version 1.0 was released on May 3rd, 2007, making it 19 years old.
Quick bits
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As mentioned last week, I’m not participating in my acting course’s final showcase, and I’m also not partaking in the remaining classes, instead giving the time and space to my fellow students who will perform.
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For fucking years now, macOS has had this bug where if you try to reveal the menu bar on one screen, it would only show the menu bar on the other screen. I’ve not found a way to fix it except for making the menu bar not hide itself. It used to be that macOS was good at handling more than one screen.
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I know I complain a lot about traffic in Berlin, but I saw a car being driven without a license plate this week. Wild.
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Codebases can use a bit of whimsy. This week I added a small funny thing that doesn’t interfere, and might not be found for months or even years.
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A few months ago, I talked about how my coworkers value Git hygiene more than at any other workplace I’ve been at. With GitHub getting worse and worse, I’m genuinely appreciating using Git as a standalone tool, and paying good attention to writing commit messages that are meaningful without the context of a pull request. It’s fun to think about a future where we could go back to using just Git, with no web GUI at all.
Decluttering
I’ve finally finished the first complete round of decluttering. I went through everything!
There still is stuff that I need to either give away or dispose of, but a lot of that stuff I still use for now. For instance, I’m not moving my trash cans (eww), but I can’t get rid of them just yet.
The process of decluttering has been emotionally taxing, but it’s been worth it, because I now am much more aware of what I value, and decluttering has given me a better idea of who I am and who I want to be. Surprisingly existential.
I’ve also found out that the indoor space of my apartment is 58m² rather than the 65m² that I thought I had — that’s me misremembering, and accidentally including balcony space. This gives me hope that I won’t actually need to downsize that drastically for my future home in London.
Links
- You've Never Seen a Real Photo (Steve Mould)
Tech links:
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It's OK to abandon your side-project (Robb Owen, 2024): I agree! Much better than reviving it with a LLM.
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Self-updating screenshots (James Adam): I love this.