Current Yaks - May 22, 2025

The Yak Stack I'm At

Working on the final export for my color picker. I need to make a bunch of examples that all have the same format
Decide to add a tool to my tools page that lets me send variables into a template and output multi-line results to generate the examples
Build the interface and decide the best way to document it is to put in an example

Add example for the first line to to use a variable string like:

brown|fox|lazy|dog

to populate a template like:

The quick VAR1 VAR2 
jumps over the VAR3 VAR4

and generate

The quick brown fox 
jumps over the lazy dog

Need more strings of variables to make more lines. Decide to make lists from datasets that I can pull from
Make lists of HTML colors and animals. Easy copy paste jobs from wikipedia. Move on to adjectives. Don't find a striaght wiki list to copy. Go looking for data
Find wordset-dictionary which has nicely formatted data with lists of words
Write a quick Rust script to extract the data into plain-text lists for diffent word types¹
Realize putting the lists on a website might be useful for other folks too
Build the initial version of lists.alanwsmith.com and start going back up the stack (with a breif delay to write this post)

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There was a side-quest yak shave here where I got frustrated that Rust's formatter doesn't work with the new way of writing scripts I'm using.

That led me to this issue that's dealing with it. I pitched an idea for how to handle my issue and got a response that it should be fine.

So, eventually I'm gonna try to figure out how to update rustfmt. But, that's for another day.