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Weeknotes (thru April 25, 2025)

The Stuff

  • Made new prototype for handing CSS in the Neb RSS reader with Declarative Shadow DOM in Declarative Shadow DOM CSS Encapsulation Test For The Neb RSS Reader.

    Got input from several nice folks that got me to this point. Working in public paying off in spades.

  • Did the first draft of Introducing Neb - A Social Network For People. Mentioned it on Mastodon, but haven't put it in discords or bluesky yet. Mastodon feels like the right place for it at this point.
  • Spent some timing learning more about using Lua to make Neovim plugins.
  • Found An Early Version Of Neopolitan. Fun to see an earlier iteration. I like the way it looks better than what I have now, but the newer take is way less friction because it's a lot easier to type.
  • Got nerd-snipped into describing who I choose where to post the stuff I make: How I Decide Where To Post

  • Spent some time working on my website builder to add cacheing during the build process. It takes the time down from ~10sec. to ~1sec.

    It would be cool to have it go just a little faster to that previewing changes feel like they show up instantly, but with the current set of 2,899 posts, I can't complain. And, doing more optimization would probably get pretty hairy.

  • Stared building a little server to run locally to collect things like bookmarks, quotes, and videos into my Grimoire:

    My Grimoire Server

    And, the more I think about it, the more I think I'm going to use this as a replacement for Neopoligen2 over time.

  • Starting splitting the Neopolitan parser out from Neopoligen. And, my god am I ever glad I wrote a bunch of tests.
  • After a few more hours of work, I figure out how to work with a nom parser. Use nom Parser's recognize Function To Convert A char To A &str In Rust

  • Had a nice dinner with some former co-workers from the TOUR. There was some discussion of them doing AI stuff. I pretty much kept my mouth shut about it.

    Had fantastic bread at the second place we went.

  • Came up with a pithy quote I like: Shower Thoughts On Distributed Technology
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Footnotes

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Neb is the social network I'm building with networked websites (which are the words that make the portmanteau: Neb)

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The engine I built to make sites from Neopolitan3 files

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