I think my Mac is becoming more and more “linux inspired” by the day. I’ve got yabai installed as my tiled window manager, alacritty as my terminal, dmenu-mac as my application launcher, and I also live in the terminal using tmux, neovim, and a bunch of custom scripts. What’s next?
I’ve been playing around with bash scripts today. Most recent is one that uses fzf to list alacritty themes, and then lets me change it without editing the config file manually.
It’s saturday, and I’ve got nothing to do until Arsenal play in around 8 hours. So I’m pretty sure that means I’m going to have to build something. What I want, is a quick way to post a micro post to my eleventy blog via the CLI. But I’m not sure what route to go down. A complex shell script? Maybe a custom Neovim plugin, or go all out and build a tool that uses the GitHub REST API?
I made the switch to alacritty today. Feels much better than iTerm 2. I much prefer having static config files to a preferences pane.
Day 6: windy
Just spent some time improving pst (https://github.com/chrishannah/pst), it now supports drafts and published posts. Example command: pst draft "hello, world".
It’s still only available to install via cargo, so I need to get it on something like homebrew soon.
Day 5: serene
Quick tip for anyone that appreciates the SF Mono font but also wants the Nerd Fonts icons, someone has created “SF-Mono-Nerd-Font”! github.com/epk/SF-Mo…
I forgot to post a photo for the photo challenge yesterday, I should catch up today though!
Day 4: foliage
Day 3: card
Day 2: flowers
How has pst got >200 downloads already?
Day 1: toy
This is what publishing a post using pst currently looks like (it only posts drafts at the moment).
I’ve only spent a day writing rust, but I’m already really enjoying it. If I continue with it for a while longer, I want to really understand things like the borrow checker, and more of the rust-specifics that I haven’t encountered yet. But for small/simple command-line tools, it seems great!
Come watch me try to play some WoW Plunderstorm www.twitch.tv/chrishann…
I’ve just pushed my new mini-project ‘pst’ to GitHub! It’s going to be a simple cli tool to publish posts to Micro.blog, and I’m also using it to learn some Rust. github.com/chrishann…
I didn’t think creating a Micro.blog post from a simple cli tool in Rust would be so simple.
I’ve never completed a full 30-day photo challenge here on Micro.blog, but I’m going to try and do the one for April. I know there isnt a requirement for a photo to be taken on each day, but I’m going to try and enforce that on myself to make it a bit more interesting.
Something I’ve noticed since entering my thirties a little over a year ago, is that I’ve become a lot less interested in both keeping up with everyone elses lives, and presenting my life for others.
My younger self would definitely not understand.
Just about to board the flight back to London. Looking forward to normal temperatures.
I took a ton of photos at this natural pool, I’ll have to spend some time refining them and building a collection. Which may be a task for the flight back home tomorrowow. But for now, I’ve got one shot that I’m really happy with. Shot with an iPhone 15 Pro Max using Halide.
Just arrived at a natural pool. The waves are much stronger than I thought, but at least the view looks good!
Just visited another town in Gran Canaria called Firgas. Not that high up in the mountains, but it’s still up in the hills. The centre had a nice plaza, and also murals of each island in the Canary Islands, and also a rather large water feature.
