It’s been a long time since I felt like I was making a dent with my work. I don’t want to tie that to getting an external keyboard for my now failed laptop keyboard. It’s really been driving me nuts for the past year or so, especially when the Touch Bar also gave up. 2 weeks ago around 25% of the buttons stopped working (or randomly working). That really is terrible and not so great engineering.

New ways of typing have been formed since then and, you know, I am too stubborn. I try and will myself through the bad times, it’s just how I operate — no matter how low things get, I still work through it. However, I think the years of working through this ultimately left me in a bit of a declining state of mind.

I love it when my tools just work. It’s the tools that enable me to do what I love. Code. So, greener pastures, healing to do. I am loving the new perspective of having an external keyboard and monitor (even if the screen is only at a 2K resolution — working through it 😅). Should have done this earlier 🤷‍♂️

So, onto projects, and I gotta tell you, there is just too much for me to write here at the moment. It would probably take me all day. I will bring back the regular posts hopefully starting next week (just hope I am productive 🤣) with project by project breakdowns.

For now though, I invite you to just go through the update blogs on each of my personal projects:

• Sublime Feed — Updates blog is here. Steadily working on this.
• Scribbles — Updates blog is here. Been busy here also.
• Tinylytics. Updates blog is here. Nothing much here at the moment.
• Shoutouts. Updates blog is here. I made it free and you’re welcome to donate to the project. Doesn’t mean it won’t get updates.

Over on Micro.blog we shipped an image modal/lightbox for the timelines, and I think it looks and works great. Manton has a post about it here. Some tweaks to deploy to it that I spotted last night. It’s great to be working on the Web App a little again — I’ve been super consumed with the apps (MB & Strata) over the past few months (totally worth it!).

Other stuff

I’ve been planning a few things that I’d like to start. That’s all I am saying. Both, yes... both, are more for personal exploration. The domain name for one of them renewed just last week, so it reminded me to have a look at that again. The other project is just a personal thing, which will lead to cool things for Sublime Feed and Scribbles (especially Scribbles).

Thanks for reading.

— Vincent