Designing software for reuse too early leads to unnecessary complexity and maintenance burdens, whereas focusing on immediate needs fosters simplicity and effectiveness.

451 words about switching over from Tiny Theme to Mythos.

Coming around to returning a result or an error in the Go programming instead of returning nil for both.

Using OpenAI Codex to make a logo generator tool to allow customisation for different clusters in Freelens.

A new project called Dequoter was started to unquote a JSON string and filter it, utilizing Go for backend functionality and HTML for the frontend.

Just a quick update today. I’ve finished all the brickwork in level 2-3. And it didn’t go too badly. Made one significant mistake which would’ve involved a lot of rework, that I patched up with some single tiles: Top: the mistake. Bottom: the fix. Doing the rest of it was pretty dreary work. Godot does have some tools to make this easier, but there was no getting around the level of care needed to place the bricks correctly.

With the move to Obsidian for my journalling needs, I shut down my bespoke journalling web-app. I deployed it on 26th August 2024, which makes it just over a year old. I did start using Obsidian on the 20th though, so it didn’t quite make it the entire year. Even so, not bad for something hand made and somewhat neglected. Most things I eventually abandon last way less than that.

Critical path for level 2-3 has been built.

Comparing UCL to an idea for a hypothetical command language for a now-defunct CLI project, which aimed to combine shell-like REPL functionality with scripting capabilities.

Attention to the finer details of how marshalled data is represented is important. Don’t neglect it.