In August, I started working on what I thought would be a small, couple of hours project to make yet another diode matrix rework of the Ferris Sweep Half Swept for Seeed Xiao called Swoon. I hoped to make a flippable, hand-solderable version that could be produced as cheaply as possible, and a version that could be fully assembled by the board house.
It's not unimaginable to hypothesize that for many people, the number of hours spent typing is the largest percentage of time spent moving a part of their body. When put this way, it's surprising that we don't have typing networks where we watch people type as spectators like soccer or rugby. Maybe this is the true joy of gaming tournaments. As a middle-aged person, I will spend, on the low end, another 41,600 hours of my life typing should I live an average lifespan.
Exploring layouts for my new keyboard and decided to give the Engram Layout by Arno Klein a go.
Last week, I decided to have an affair with the text editor of my youth: Vim. No matter how thoroughly I work to assimilate a command's syntax, I always have to refresh after some time away.
When I used to use Atom, there was a great collaborative writing tool called Teletype. It allowed multiple people to be editing the same files at the same time. I've been working on a book lately and wanted to get another one in progress with a group of authors, so I tried to find something that would duplicate Teletype's functionality iThonically.
A few weeks ago, I happened onto MWeb and everything changed. MWeb has a great preview, a good library that integrates well with its desktop version, and allows easy editing of files in external folders, including the git repository that hosts this site.