Some leftover chores.

  • I setup Calendly as my meeting scheduler, with Google Meet for web conferencing (I contemplated Jitsi but that does not integrate in Calendly as smoothly);
  • I installed the Excalidraw plugin for Obsidian. It’s insane. Especially in combination with a tablet and a stylus pen. Madness;
  • Hugo supports emojis short codes: 🦊 Hugo emojis quick reference 🦉 ;
  • Prompt engineering to skill engineering to context engineering to loop engineering to graph engineering. And I probably missed some. There’s a new MUST HAVE skill every month in the wonderful world of LLMs. Apparently LangChain and LangGraph are the tools to use. So I wachted the LangChain vs LangGraph video from the IBM series on AI. I like their AI videos. (spoiler: LangChain and LangGraph are both graphs. But LangChain is a directed and acyclic graph, a DAG).

Update on Calendly:

  1. Combining Calendly with mixed fastmail and google account for mail and calendar sucks; it messed up communication (spoofing) and people got errors booking meetings. So I caved in and decided to go for a Google Workspace plan. One of my silent goals was (and is) to see if there are ways to bypass big-corp and / or paid options (and there always are). But in this case the trade-off to convenience was too big.
  2. I completely forgot, but Google Calendar has it’s own scheduling functionality making Calendly functionally obsolete. I will keep using Calendly for the time being (to get to know it and learn why everyone is using it). But ready to ditch it any time for native Google Calendar scheduling.

Tmux

Tmux is one of my favourite apps or (should I say “concepts”?). But it’s impossible to use. The default UX is terrible. The UI is also terrible. But since it’s open source, there’s a ton of plugins and configuration options that make it much easier and pleasant to use.

My setup is largely based on this tutorial:

Took me about 20 minutes to watch and setup my tmux. Then I spent 3,5 hours debugging and tweaking the setup (since the video is 2 years old, some settings are out of date).

When I was finished, I found this video, which is much simpler with (almost) the same result:

Both the DevOps Toolbox (he sounds like the YT bass dude) and Typecraft channels are cool and informative if you’re into Linux and DevOps. Mischa van den Burgs channel is also cool but more focused on home lab and distros.

I stumbled upon the channel via his 150$ Laptop video:

SuperLogic

I use Ghostty as a terminal emulator. And Ghostty is built by Mitchel Hashimoto, founder of HashiCorp, creator of ao Vagrant (<- tell me if you used Vagrant and I’ll send you a sticker) and Terraform. He is now working on SuperLogical, apparently a sane Tmux alternative:

Mitchel explaining why he’s building SuperLogical:

And I love his dedication and commitment to detail, especially speed:

SuperLogical is the reason I’m holding out a bit on Herdr.

TODO:

  • Learn how to use Excalidraw properly