2024-05-29

• An interesting article on DuckDB and its ability to query from multifarious sources.

• An intentionally-broken DNS server for testing purposes

• A (very awful but functional) web app for making header images

  • I’ve standardized on 1300x200 for these, using the default colors found in that app.

    • 1300x100 sounds like a nice header size for libraries.

• I’ve implemented a ./bootstrap.sh command that can setup a machine to work on Panopticon. I think this’ll be a common pattern for me going forward.

• I’ve found Vale to be a very nice companion as I write documentation- I plan on adding to more of my projects. The VSCode integration leaves a lot to be desired- it seems to over-scan things- but the Alex, proselint, and Google rules are a good combination.

• Gitmoji has some nice annotations for commit messages.

• Conventional Commits also seems like a good thing to add to my work.

• Some awesome lists I want to get more info from:

  • Quantified Self

  • Colors

  • Shell

  • Dotfiles

    • .macos Settings

    • macOS Defaults

    • chezmoi

    • chezmoi’s creator’s dotfiles

    • Mathias Bynen’s dotfiles

    • Dotfiles tips

• Git config for global hooks

• An interesting video on how to install vinyl flooring over carpet

• An absolutely incredible API that might provide the finance automation tools I want

• Kyrat is an interesting tool for using your dotfiles on a remote device

• shellcheck can help with linting scripts

bin/web

• Consolidate the CSS I’m using from Super Traceroute into my own files.

  • I’m also working on converting all of this CSS into SCSS, using ideas and layouts from CSS Guidelines to try and make my styles more comprehensible.

lib/init

• Figure out OpenTelemetry integration and provider.

  • Alternatively, is it worth just installing sybil and dumping data into it like I would with Scuba?

  • OK. I’ve decided that I don’t like any of the available providers for telemetry, and I’m going to just write my own. In particular, I want to make something based on the concepts of ctxlog, so building up/nesting tags is important.

  • I still need to figure out where to dump this data to.