Weeknotes - October 17, 2025
Here's What I Remembered To Write Down
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I saw Switch Angle doing doing strudel last week (TKTKTKTK video). Live coding music is right in the center of my nerd-snipping bullseye. But, I don't want to have to sit at the keyboard to do it. I want to be able to sit back and do it on the iPad with a pencil.
So, I'm scratching out an idea to put a web based user interface layer over it. TBD on how far that goes, but the kickoff is here:
This is totally one of those things that I half feel like is something folks would be like "why are you even trying that", but like, I've gotten used to the feeling of fear that comes with that. It's one of those mind-killer things, but I'm letting it watch over me and past me.
That's the power of computers, we can just do thing on them. And, we can do anything anyone else can (given enough time).
So, we'll see what happens.
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Did a bunch of work on bitty to provide fetching external file. Not just JSON data, but HTML snippets, SVGs, and lines of text. The HTML is pretty interesting because it basically lets you do HTML includes.
Each one has a find/replace feature to. So, you can load up an HTML including doing a find replace on the content as it's created.
- Continuing on Weird Web October. I almost quite on day 13 because I wanted to work on bitty, but I stuck with it.
- I went to the beach for a walk and a little sitting in the sun three days in a row. So far, each time I go it makes the next time easier to get motivated for and actually do it.
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I found a really cool font called Anaheim. It looks like a mono spaced font, but it's proportional. Makes it perfect for the move I've done of switching to proportional fonts for code blocks.
Found it in this list of fonts. It's the only one from Google Fonts listed there that's actually proportional.
But, I only need one.
(This would also be great for books that use code blocks. Would be cool if you could updated your Kindle to use it in place of monospace fonts. Would prevent more text from breaking to multiple lines.)
- The original link I found about fonts was on Graphic Design Stack Exchange which I didn't know existed. Will have to check it out a little.
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I made a small update to tmux which I use to make tabs in my terminal software. It now automatically adds title to each tab. Prior to having them, I'd have to jump between tabs and look at the content in them to see what each one was. It wasn't awful. I did that for years, but it's nicer now.
This is one of those things that took maybe an hour to figure out and ended up being two lines of config. I made a post about it to help other folks trying to do the same thing: Update Ghostty Terminal Tab Titles with tmux Session Names in zsh
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espanso (the text expander I was using) died. I gave it 30min of troubleshooting then punted. I'm now using the neovim-menu tool I built as a replacement in Neovim. I rarely did anything with espanso and pretty much everything I do text wise happens in Neovim so it's an easy switch.
In a way, it's cool. I was thinking about doing more stuff with the menu. It was always on the back-burner though. Now that I need to use it, it's brought it up to the active stack.