as of 2022-03-04
(This is a now page, and if you have your own site, you should make one, too.)
Writing
I’m slowly (very slowly) writing a new course. More on this as the idea gels.
Coding
- Doing a surprising amount of various flavors of JavaScript.
- This page is evidence that I just completed porting my site to something based on Vuepress.
Looking At
- Still looking for a functional language to teach.
Messin’ Around
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About half-way through a redesign of my workshop. It started with a simple idea: let’s add central dust collection. That was a year ago, and the shop has been torn up since. Slowly making prpogress, though. I just finished a router table that seems to collect virtually all the dust and shavings.
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Trying to find time to play with my Mother 32.
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Oh, and we’re trying to build a new house (which in the post-COVID slump is taking forever).
Tools I’m Using
Hardware
Back to the Mac. In the end my one-year Linux experiment was great, but the alternatives to the tools I use (Adobe xxx, Affinity yyy, Graffle, and ScreenFlow) were not quite there. It’s a shame: in many ways Linux is now the nicest overall OS to use.
I’m on a 6x2 core i7 MBP with an old Intuos tablet. I steal one of my kids’ old screens as an occasional second monitor.
Content creation
Adobe Premier Pro, Screenflow, Affinity Designer, Photoshop. Omnigraffle, Quicktime, Numbers, Keynote. I wish I could find a simple animation package. Skim for PDF reading.
Editor
After at least 30 years of resisting vi, my eldest threw down the gauntlet, and I installed Neovim. It took a while for it to become intuitive, but I’m finding myself being far more productive than I was in Emacs, VS Code, or anything else.
I run it in a terminal using Kitty. With a little configuration, I can now do all my window management, both inside the editor and outside in the terminal, with a single set of key sequences.
Utilities
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Git: for just about everything: my driving value is is “if my machine melts overnight, can I be back to where I was by that afternoon?”
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Jekyll with a modified Joseph theme for this site (I’ve tried a bunch of others, but they try to do too much and keep getting in the way.)
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LetsEncrypt/CertBot for keys.
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Ruby (still): for general scripting