Installed Tabliss for Firefox this morning. Why have I not done this before?
I got up early this morning, and instead of starting out with some writing of the Ruby code, I opened my notes app and started writing a blog post for today. Nothing major, just an observation for tomorrow. It’s queued up and ready to be published later today. Feels good.
Cal Newport with some advice on dealing with election day anxiety.
Here I have a suggestion that I think could be healing for all points of the political spectrum: use the stress of this election to be the final push needed to step away from the exhausting digital chatter that’s been dominating your brain.
Although I am not voting, I am slightly anxious about what the electoral map will look like by tomorrow. With the timezone difference though, I won’t have any issues following Cal’s advice. By 10pm tonight I will likely be out for the count.
I had some company this morning in the garden.
I was hoping the Packers would at least have a close game with the Lions tonight at Lambeau. After a dismal first half and the Packers just giving away penalties, I’ve seen enough.
Settling into Stimulus once again
Over the last few days, I’ve been writing more JavaScript than usual. The reason? I am using Stimulus a lot more in one of my Rails projects.
Enhancing the functionality of my Rails application with some HTML markup and a JavaScript controller is good, as Stimulus has a small learning curve and integrates well with Rails.
As I add more Stimulus to the application, though, I am learning some of its best practices the hard way. One criticism I have of my own controllers is that they are very page-specific. That’s fine for now, as the application is relatively small. Still, I plan to break these controllers into more generic behaviours that can be re-used more easily across the application in the future.
Going to start blogging again
I’m going to start blogging again.
Not the titleless posts I have been posting for the last couple of years, but the longer posts that need a title. The posts need to be split up into sections. The posts that have a call-to-action. The posts might just be rambling for the sake of it. The posts that venture an opinion. The posts that tell you something you already know. The posts that tell you something you don’t know. The posts that I will deem not worthy of publishing, but I do it anyway.
It’s not a ground-breaking start, but it’s a start.
Congrats to the Pixelmator team on joining Apple! I’ve been using Pixelmator for years and have nothing but praise for its simplicity and design.
While this is excellent news for Pixelmator, I wonder how long Apple will allow Pixelmator to exist as it is.
Our Japanese Maple in the garden is looking its best just before all its leaves start to fall. I wish autumn was a bit longer.
I mostly have notifications turned off, with only a few apps enabled. Even then, the scope is narrowed down so that I receive a notification from that app once or twice a day.