Matthew Lang

This wasn’t intentional, it just kind of happened.

With a week off work, I’ve been doing other things rather than sitting in front of a screen. The boys and I have been enjoying a few days of golf. Drew has been going to a golf camp for the younger kids in the morning, and Ethan and I have been hitting the course this week. By the time afternoon rolls around, me and Drew are happy to leave Ethan at the club and head home for an afternoon of chilling.

The results have been a quieter than usual blog. It’s not been a bad thing though, because yet again I’ve been toying with the value of my blog and whether it’s worth continuing with. It seems that every few months I question this and inevitably continue posting. This time the decision is still the same. I’m sticking with the blog.

Regular posting should resume shortly.

Maybe it’s the books that I buy, but I don’t see many books with illustrations in them. In books the illustration is a visual indication of where the story is but in the case of older books, I would say the illustration is much more of a labour of love.

These illustrations for “The Tempest” by Arthur Rackham are a great example of this.

I only know of Arthur Rackham as it was his illustrations that were included in my edition of “A Christmas Carol”. There is something about his illustrations that set them apart from other illustrated books.

I would love to see more illustrated books in stores.

I’ve been making quiet and steady progress with Markcase over the last couple of weeks. Just minor changes here and there.

One of the bigger changes is the addition of individual pages for each bookmark so that you can see related bookmarks. These are accessible by clicking on the bookmark’s timestamp.

At the moment it only returns a handful of bookmarks from the same domain, but I am going to add more sections to this page to include related bookmarks by tag and date.

In the last couple of weeks, I’ve been slowly getting back into using Vim as my default text editor.

Even though VS Code is really popular with developers at the moment, I’m not a big fan of using Electron-based apps. Also, VS Code’s popularity has been killing off some packages that I use on Sublime Text, which effectively kills that off as well. I did try to move back to Sublime Text, but I’m not finding it anymore productive than VS Code. Which brings me to Vim.

After many attempts at moving to Vim, I can still remember the keyboard shortcuts for many commands on Vim, so I haven’t been at a total loss in getting started again.