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.
I’ve added “Galaxy Fold” to the growing list of muted tech topics that I couldn’t give a monkeys about in Feedbin. It’s an interesting idea, but foldable screens still seem to me, to be too fragile a medium. Especially on an every day device like a smartphone.
There are lots of good reasons to having your own website.
Bullet journaling again
I’m bullet journaling again.
To be honest, I didn’t really stop. I’ve kept a light bullet journal in a pocket notebook for the last few months. It’s hard to break a habit.
During this time, I also tried using a digital task manager, but it turned out to be a failed experiment. I just can’t keep a to-do list in an app anymore. It feels too constrained, and it usually feels like there’s a workflow to each type of app—a way it wants you to do things.
I just don’t get that with bullet journaling. The basic ideas are there, but I put my own little spin on them. It feels unique to me, and that’s maybe why I enjoy it so much.
As with each bulletin journal, I like to make it my own with a few stickers of stuff I like. I have a Micro.blog sticker, obviously, a Ruby sticker, and a couple of nods to The Last of Us and Stranger Things.
I’m still missing a golf-related sticker, though.