I think my goal this weekend is to go through the profiles of everyone I follow on twitter and follow them on other platforms (RSS, flickr, pixv). There are a lot of artists from Japan that I would never have discovered if not for twitter and would be hard to find again.
In Takina we trust.
Lycoris Recoil is hands down my favorite of the season and if not for Kaguya-sama would probably be anime of the year (still might, but that might be recency bias talking)
trapped in time, surrounded by evil, low on gas
Fall 2022 speculation a bit early!
MP100, SxF, and Chainsaw Man… Damn!
I’ve determined I’m not very good at coming up with prompts for Stable Diffusion to chew on…
Man with a chainsaw for a head surrounded by an army of skeletons in the style of an 80's horror VHS cover
Prey (2022)
Amber Midthunder’s performance is spectacular!
Been trying to use Orion as my daily browser for the last week. It’s promise of using Webkit (and the clean UI look of Safari) with Firefox/Chrome extension compatibility was a big selling point. I’ve also been trying to use Kagi as my default search engine.
The latter has been going better than the former.
The browser compatibility is very rough and has a bunch of bugs (it’s still in beta, so that’s not that surprising). There are a few UI quirks that are making it difficult to fully adopt, but it’s really close. I like the idea of diversifying my tech stack and I’m hoping Orion improves over time.
That feeling you get when your own blog entry is on the first search page for a question you still don’t have an answer too…
Summer 2022 speculation inbound!
Notably absent here is Lucifer and Biscuit Hammer - literally everyone who was a fan of the manga has panned everything to do with this adaptation (very sad, but I’ll just have to pick up the manga at some point).
I’ve been putting off watching the Made in Abyss movie, saving my soul from the feels… Now I have a deadline.
I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned it, but I love Setapp – I get so much value out of my monthly subscription. Every so often, I revisit the list of apps to see if there is anything new that I can incorporate into my workflow.
Today’s discovery is OpenIn – a clever little app that allows me to configure a set of rules to customize what happens when I click a link. Here’s what I initially came up with:
- Open
localhostin Chrome - ⌥ mod click to pop up a list of browsers
- Default open in Firefox
Having a curated list of apps that solves small pain points is extremely handy. Highly recommended!
There are only so many seats open in my life,
and I don't want to let my heart be swayed by
anyone who's not sitting in one of them.
Is that mean?
Of course, there are also people like you
who bring their own seat and sit down.
-- Nobara Kugisaki (Jujutsu Kaisen)
Installed Nightfall – a simple menubar app to toggle between light and dark modes. Why something like this isn’t available by default boggles my mind. I can now go through all my apps to make sure they follow the system setting.
Except for iTerm of course which gets permanent dark mode status.
A post from Josh Comeau’s blog, “The Surprising Truth About Pixels and Accessibility” –
The truth is, if you want to build the most-accessible product possible, you need to use both pixels and ems/rems. It’s not an either/or situation. There are circumstances where rems are more accessible, and other circumstances where pixels are more accessible.
This is one of the best breakdowns of px/em/rem you will ever find. Highly recommended reading.
The backgrounds are amazing and Wit Studio is on point with the action choreography. Definitely worth checking out (Netflix) even with this season as packed as it is.
In light of recent events, might be worth revisiting this…
Spring 2022
Currently exploring if I can somehow have gatsby render textbundle packages out of the box. On the surface, as long as you obey the spec, it seems it will work. I even got my “extra wide image” title hack to work.
Things get wonky when you actually open it with your writing application of choice (I’m using Ulysses). The problem is that assets that aren’t explicitly referenced as images in text.md are unceremoniously removed, which is problematic if you want to have an image referenced in your frontmatter. Even files saved as peers of info.json and text.md are wiped upon saving (my guess is that Ulysses is rewriting the TextBundle as effectively a blob on every save). Ulysses has a notion of “Attachments” but it doesn’t seem to be implemented for editing TextBundles.
My workaround for that is to use my “extra wide image” hack to use the image “title” as hidden to trigger a CSS display: none rule. That way can just include the image at the beginning of the document so it wont get cleaned out.
On a few smaller notes, Ulysses uses reference style links instead of inline as their “backing store” – not the end of the world. Additionally, their handling of frontmatter formatting (an excessive need to escape certain characters) could prove a problem if can’t get it to stick. From what I can tell, as long as I don’t open the raw file outside of Ulysses, it should be fine :shrug:
EPS to SVG
using only the tools you have on hand…
brew install ghostscript pdf2svg
ps2pdf -dEPSCrop image.eps image.pdf
pdf2svg image.pdf image.svg