Coffee on my desk, pen and paper ready, text editor open.
This morning’s goal is to get my head round Webpacker in Rails 6.0 and Font Awesome installed through Yarn/Webpacker.
A few pieces of the Webpack puzzle are starting to fall into place now. Got a few notes so that I don’t trip up on the same steps in the future.
Looking forward to my new development role with the NHS National Services Scotland in a few weeks. Time to brush up on the .NET knowledge again.
It’s never too late to start writing.
iTerm’s new status bar with configurable Python components should mean no more faffing about with Powerline in Vim.
Powerline is useful, but it can be a pain to configure and it takes up too much screen space as well.
Great night tonight. Some ten pin bowling with Jen and the boys and then a wee walk along the Clyde.
Rebooting my reading list with a trusted author
Despite only being a few chapters from the end of Cixin Liu’s The Wandering Earth, I decided to give up on finishing the book. The first few chapters were quite good, but my interest gradually waned through the middle chapters.
With my track record of books read this year being very poor, I’ve decided to read a book from an author who’s books I have always thoroughly enjoyed. Raymond E. Feist’s King of Ashes is the first in a series and hopefully, I’ll get to the end of this book and the rest of the series.
A corrupt bailout?
I often wonder why we as a planet, can’t seem to get our shit together, and then I’m reminded by people pulling stunts like this.
To summarize: the bill would subsidize four uncompetitive power plants, remove all incentive to build more renewable energy projects, and cancel efforts to help customers use less energy. It is a bill only a utility (and the lawmakers who do its bidding) could love, an extravagant gift to utility investors that hoses Ohio ratepayers.
— Ohio just passed the worst energy bill of the 21st century - Vox
Not content with being an already great free service, Unsplash now has collections for education.
Hard to believe that the sport in question is a video game. E-sports is definitely not just a fad anymore.