This smile must be protected at all costs.

My Dress-Up Darling

Random Curiosity’s Spring Preview came out last night and oh boy is this a stacked season! So many sequels to series I loved the first (or second) time around. I never finished the first season Shield Hero so that isn’t immediately on this list.

Winter was very mild this year – only picked up two new shows, so I was able to make some backlog progress. That’s definitely not happening this quarter.

Side note – So much isekai…

The new season of The Witcher dropped and I waited for the holidays to binge it.

Absolutely loved it.

It’s not the books — it’s not the video game. It is very much it’s own entity and if you approach it with that in mind, you’ll have a great time.

Now all that’s left is waiting for season 3…

Arcane: League of Legends is the surprise hit of the season and season 2 has just been confirmed.

Don’t let the fact that it’s based off the game deter you. Go in blind. You will not regret it.

Steps to write a new static micro post:

yarn newPost micro
# Edit index.md in Caret
yarn start # Verify
git add .
git commit -m "new micro post"
git push

Doesn’t seem too bad for now. I think I’m going to start a new app that allows me to do all those things from a single form in the menu bar. The more I can treat the entire process as atomic, the more I think I’ll use it.

Even better, generate a twitter compatible summary, add a back link and post to twitter.

Update — iSH.app now supports node! I can at least now edit markdown files via the command line on an iPad now. Going to see if I can get gatsby to actually run and connect to localhost…

Note to self: I do need to update my vim configuration, but for the moment I can actually edit the markdown files in Byword on the iPad since iSH exposes it’s filesystem to the Files system.

What with the whole SIP COVID situation, I decided I wanted to be able to noodle on some music ideas and wanted to get my home studio functioning again. Easier said than done.

Turns out my audio interface doesn’t really work anymore, given the company behind it stopped releasing drivers a few years ago (I’m pretty sure they are essentially out of business at this point). So I unexpectedly entered the market for a new audio interface. My current leading candidate is the MOTU M4 but that seems to be sold out everywhere (probably due in no small part to COVID… sigh)

I’m also looking into a new MIDI controller since my old JV-35 has some broken keys. I was eying the Native Instruments Komplete Kontrol s61. I would love to get the full 88 weighted key version, but I’m not sure I can justify the cost.

Sidenote: I’m using this post to debug my netlify cms configuration

prisma.io seems to fail very quickly on even the most basic SQL types. I think if you are doing a project from scratch and you have a very vanilla data model, Prisma might make sense. However trying to pair it with an existing database, you quickly find out where all the assumptions in the abstraction break down.

Decided to go with knex + apollo-server as flexible SQL abstraction and feel it’s just at the right level.

Sidenote: Being forced to deal with a data model I built 17 years ago (and really didn’t know what I was doing) is really trying my patience not to just say “burn it down” – How many people have something still in production they wrote 17 years ago?

Took advantage of the PS Days of Play sale to pick up God of War and Marvel’s Spiderman. Been meaning to play both games for quite a while, so nice that I could pick them both up on sale.