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I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned it, but I love Setapp – I get so much value out of my monthly subscription. Every so often, I revisit the list of apps to see if there is anything new that I can incorporate into my workflow.

Today’s discovery is OpenIn – a clever little app that allows me to configure a set of rules to customize what happens when I click a link. Here’s what I initially came up with:

  1. Open localhost in Chrome
  2. ⌥ mod click to pop up a list of browsers
  3. Default open in Firefox

Having a curated list of apps that solves small pain points is extremely handy. Highly recommended!

There are only so many seats open in my life,
and I don't want to let my heart be swayed by
anyone who's not sitting in one of them.

Is that mean?

Of course, there are also people like you 
who bring their own seat and sit down.

-- Nobara Kugisaki (Jujutsu Kaisen)

Installed Nightfall – a simple menubar app to toggle between light and dark modes. Why something like this isn’t available by default boggles my mind. I can now go through all my apps to make sure they follow the system setting.

Except for iTerm of course which gets permanent dark mode status.

A post from Josh Comeau’s blog, “The Surprising Truth About Pixels and Accessibility” –

The truth is, if you want to build the most-accessible product possible, you need to use both pixels and ems/rems. It’s not an either/or situation. There are circumstances where rems are more accessible, and other circumstances where pixels are more accessible.

This is one of the best breakdowns of px/em/rem you will ever find. Highly recommended reading.

Vampire in the Garden

The backgrounds are amazing and Wit Studio is on point with the action choreography. Definitely worth checking out (Netflix) even with this season as packed as it is.

Anime

In light of recent events, might be worth revisiting this…

Spring 2022

Currently exploring if I can somehow have gatsby render textbundle packages out of the box. On the surface, as long as you obey the spec, it seems it will work. I even got my “extra wide image” title hack to work.

Things get wonky when you actually open it with your writing application of choice (I’m using Ulysses). The problem is that assets that aren’t explicitly referenced as images in text.md are unceremoniously removed, which is problematic if you want to have an image referenced in your frontmatter. Even files saved as peers of info.json and text.md are wiped upon saving (my guess is that Ulysses is rewriting the TextBundle as effectively a blob on every save). Ulysses has a notion of “Attachments” but it doesn’t seem to be implemented for editing TextBundles.

My workaround for that is to use my “extra wide image” hack to use the image “title” as hidden to trigger a CSS display: none rule. That way can just include the image at the beginning of the document so it wont get cleaned out.

On a few smaller notes, Ulysses uses reference style links instead of inline as their “backing store” – not the end of the world. Additionally, their handling of frontmatter formatting (an excessive need to escape certain characters) could prove a problem if can’t get it to stick. From what I can tell, as long as I don’t open the raw file outside of Ulysses, it should be fine 🤷

EPS to SVG
using only the tools you have on hand…