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+title: Tuesday, August 8, 2023
+tags: ["daily"]
+date: 2023-08-08T14:14:33.182-04:00
+---
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+After about a month helix is something I dropped. I work on linux, mac's and Windows envs and if my editor can't do the same I drop it. Unfortunately there's a weird bug in helix where some keypresses (like `escape` to get out edit mode) take a second to register. That seriously messes with my workflow where I mash `esc` and then quickly jump to another section.. Enough to make using Helix a frustrating experience.
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+Instead I've been testing [Lunar Vim](https://www.lunarvim.org/) which is a bunch of plugins pre-configured for neovim. My goal is to be able to get set up on my editing environment quickly and neovim is not that. But Lunar Vim seems to have mostly sensible defaults (except for the nerdfonts requirement)
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+title: Sunday, June 18, 2023
+tags: ["daily"]
+date: 2023-06-18T06:30:13.680-04:00
+---
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+Been a few days since an update here - mostly because I've been quite swamped. The *Reddit Fiasco* has been somewhat freeing in that I've just moved on from the platform. I never really contributed much in my 13+ years outside of a few DMs and responding to help. I haven't actually replaced it with anything. I like kbin/lemmy.. but I'm really not looking for the same thing. I think I'm looking for smaller communities... again the IndieWeb beckons.
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+I've also been spending a lot of time working on my PBBG [Rising Legends](https://www.risinglegends.net). It's still not even ready for an alpha.. but the bones are there. It's actually been great to work on it and it's finally at the point where I can start adding content. I took a bunch of extra time to integrate with [AirTable](https://airtable.com/) which has been lovely (if a bit laggy) to work with. Things are finally at the point where I can focus on content for a week or two and then start getting some more dedicated testers involved.
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+I've also been playing around with funding models for the game that stays away from MTX. I've never been a fan of MTX and always been a fan of FREE. I'll probably have to do a longer post on the matter as there's quite a lot to unpack I think.
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+title: Wednesday, June 21, 2023
+tags: ["daily"]
+date: 2023-06-21T05:57:49.127-04:00
+---
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+I don't do a lot of posts with images.. mostly because I do all my work in markdown and rarely preview as I'm going. However this new outliner writing method has me paranoid and constantly previewing the content as I go and it's made me add images for the first time in a long time...
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+title: Thursday, June 22, 2023
+tags: ["daily"]
+date: 2023-06-22T10:11:03.546-04:00
+---
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+Trying out [Helix](https://helix-editor.com/) and just the ease of getting up and running with all the features that I want out of the box was incredible? Like that alone should be enough for new devs to get started. Vim/NeoVim is great if you're already in that world and have years of configs/settings that you're used to. But if you're just starting out with modal editors, you can't compete with everything just working out of the box?
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+I literally have a git repo where I track my vim config and all the plugins that I use so that I don't need to remember that. Being able to skip out on all of that is a wonderful idea/change.
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+title: Saturday, June 3rd, 2023
+tags: ["daily"]
+date: 2023-06-03T06:08:02.255-04:00
+---
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+In a strange twist, it appears that I may be more of a morning person than I though. The last few days I've been going to bed by 9:30 (kids...) and then waking up at 4am and starting my day. It's been a strange experience. By about 7am I've managed to get a bunch of work done and had time to walk the dog before the 30 degree weather kicks in and melts her.
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+Learned about the `hugo -w` flag which allows hugo to constantly watch/build my posts. So the process from outline -> blog is a bit more streamlined.
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+title: Sunday, June 4th, 2023
+tags: ["daily"]
+date: 2023-06-05T09:47:29.995-04:00
+---
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+I've been noodling around in the fediverse for a long time now, entranced by some of the ideas Diaspora had when it first launched.. and mostly just continually disappointed by the various communities that tend to spring up around it. Hoping this foray into the activity-pub based world (kbin, lemmy, pleroma) will be different. But already the main lemmy instance is proving to be a bad one specifically because of the devs. Why can't we just have nice things?
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+Created the first "Garden" post about my [Outliner](/gardens/outliner) project which will serve as a long running (forever updating) "home page" for the project.
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+title: Monday, June 5th, 2023
+tags: ["daily"]
+date: 2023-06-05T14:14:27.562-04:00
+---
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+Caching is a bad idea until you have some concrete numbers as to why you're caching a thing.
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+I feel like all reddit has to do is say "Ok, we've changed the pricing to something more reasonable" and then everyone will pat themselves on the back and start paying for their own content. Reddit exists because users devote the time to submit new content and to MODERATE IT all for free. They want you to continue to do that, but then charge users to read it the way they want to read it? Kind of crazy. All this is to say that I'm being drawn back in to the whole fediverse stuff....
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+title: Tuesday, June 7th, 2023
+tags: ["daily"]
+date: 2023-06-07T06:15:03.434-04:00
+---
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+Today's the day I finally start looking into mouse support on the Outliner. It's honestly been a great tool and a daily driver for my notes/blog updates. I don't really see much need in mouse support, but someone saw me using it and was intrigued. And I had to reluctantly tell them it doesn't support a mouse...
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+With the fires out in Quebec continuing, air quality has continued to deteriorate. For a good chunk of yesterday everything had a bit of an orange hue. You can track air quality forecasts here - https://firesmoke.ca/
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+title: Friday, June 9th, 2023
+tags: ["daily"]
+date: 2023-06-09T05:49:51.517-04:00
+---
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+[Rising Legends](https://www.risinglegends.net) is finally getting to the point where the core game loop is in. It's exciting to be back in this space after so many years. Every couple years I build the mechanics/system for some PBBG - often to test out some new architecture/design patterns. This time I really focused on getting something playable rather than the code behind it. The next step is to start getting some 3rd party testers and early alpha feedback!
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+title: Wednesday, November 22, 2023
+tags: ["daily"]
+date: 2023-11-22T03:07:16.121-05:00
+---
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+[Lunar Vim](https://www.lunarvim.org/) has become my new editor configuration. The easy of setup + inter-plugin configuration trumphs the requirement for me to craft my own personal installation. Out of the plugins that I use, everything works well enough. It's been enough that my configuration has become quite minimal.
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+To be honest, there's actually very little in here that is required apart from the relative line numbering. The same configuration works across platforms (linux, windows with wsl, mac) and honestly I've run into no real issues with it. There are some minor peculiarities that I've had to re-learn (mostly just which search shortcut based on the scenario). The web-based docs are adequate.. but honestly I think the in-app configuration stuff is a lot clearer to navigate.
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+title: Tuesday, November 21, 2023
+tags: ["daily"]
+date: 2023-11-22T00:25:43.339-05:00
+---
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+[Lunar Vim](https://www.lunarvim.org/) has become my new editor configuration. The easy of setup + inter-plugin configuration trumphs the requirement for me to craft my own personal installation. Out of the plugins that I use, everything works well enough. It's been enough that my configuration has become quite minimal.
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+**.config/lvim/config.lua**
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+<script src="https://gist.github.com/AngeloR/898d59df9ca86e4807b72f3e28c7164f.js"></script>
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+To be honest, there's actually very little in here that is required apart from the relative line numbering.
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+title: river.xangelo.ca
+tags: ["daily"]
+date: 2024-01-31T21:36:06.372-05:00
+---
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+I've been running [https://river.xangelo.ca](https://river.xangelo.ca) for a number of years now - going back to tweak things ever-so-slightly. This is the first time I've been happy about the whole system. This whole "build it for yourself" phase seems to be working...
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+The river is just a few websites that I like to follow, but mostly sporadically. I'll hop on and check things out when I can because I find the content to be pretty interesting. It reads some RSS feeds, and constantly updates the main page with any new posts that I haven't seen yet.
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+title: Links!
+tags: ["daily"]
+date: 2024-02-04T23:00:12.253-05:00
+---
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+I've added a new [Links](https://xangelo.ca/page/links) section to my blog to highlight individual-owned/operated blogs that I follow. It's kind of a throwback to the old blog-world pre web2.0 where you just maintained a link to other blogs that you wanted to support.
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