February 2026

Weeknotes (Ending Feb. 13, 2026)

Tuesday, Feb. 10

Been working on bitty and my Magic: The Gathering Deck Refiner a lot. The deck refiner is informing the work I'm doing on bitty.

While taking a nap, I realize I could use another approach with bitty where I don't wrap other elements inside it. I can just put it on the page and have it watch for events. I think it'll simplify a lot of things (which is what a lot of the work I've been putting into bitty the past week has been all about).

Version 8 was already going to be a bunch of changes to the API to simplify things. Now, it'll be an every bigger change.

It does mean kinda starting with a blank file. I'm cool with that. I'll still be able to copy in a lot of the original work. I can avoid cruft while doing so.

Thursday, Feb. 12

I finally closed down my Spotify account and switched to Apple Music. Spotify made it really easy to cancel. Apple Music made it really easy to sign up.

I downloaded all my playlists and data from Spotify before I left. TBD if I do anything with that. I don't do that much with individual playlists, but I would like all my favorited tracks moved over.

Weirdly, I'd swear Apple Music sounds better than Spotify in my headphones.
I've put a bunch of work into the new iteration of bitty. Biggest thing I did at the start was write a new documentation/testing setup. It's really nice to work with. That's important since I'm using the docs for the primary testing structure (tests were set up on an independent page in earlier versions).
I rebooted my machine after 77 days of uptime.

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a screen shot of a computer terminal window where the _uptime_ command has been run. The output includes _up 77 days_

There was a process called fseventsd that kept spinning up and using 100% of a CPU. It might have been because of one of my static site generators. The problem didn't go away after I shut them all down though. Of course, it's entirely possible that the way I wrote them left a zombie process.

Whatever. The reboot fixed it.

Friday, Feb. 13

Had another little epiphany about the API for bitty. Basically, I'm turning this:
```
const el = this.api.makeHTML(this.api.template(key));
```
into:
```
const el = this.api.html(key);
```
Same thing will work for:
```
this.api.element(key)
this.api.json(key)
this.api.svg(key)
this.api.text(key)
```
That about as short as I can get things with bitty's class based approach. I'm more than happy with it.

-a

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References

bitty - the little framework that could

My little framework that's all rolled into a single web component.