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- 22 August 2024: Development work started
- 15 September 2024: Addition of attachments and titles
- 4 October 2024: Adding Git synchronisation of entries
Devlog: Trying OpenAI Codex to Produce Freelens Logo Creator
Using OpenAI Codex to make a logo generator tool to allow customisation for different clusters in Freelens.
Finally indeed.
Speaking of Dequoter, in “celebration” of the upcoming release of MacOS 26, I styled the command palette a little, adding a transmissive blur to give it a glass effect:
It’s a shame I can’t style the options of the select element. It would be nice to increase their margins a bit.
Ah, MacOS’s locked-down nature strikes again! Was testing the CI/CD build for Dequoter and after downloading the artefact and attempting to open it, I got this warning message:
Turn’s out it was being quarantined by MacOS, and these instructions resolved the issue.
The binaries not notarised so I wasn’t expecting it to work out of the box. I was hoping that it would do that thing where the app will be listed in settings and I can allow it to launch from there, but I guess there’s something about where this file came from that was too much from MacOS. Ah well, I can live with this for the short term.
Devlog: Dequoter — Something Different Today
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.
I saw someone online mention Zo Computer so I though I’d give it a try. Asked it to produce a Go function based on one of my blog posts, since I needed the same thing in a different project. I saw it open the blog post and generate the function in about 5 seconds.
Granted that this is hardly groundbreaking. It’s using GPT 4.1 mini, so it’s likely I could’ve done the same thing straight from ChatGPT. But I think it’s a good first step in seeing what this service is capable of.
I also wonder if the model is actually consuming the post. I have nothing to support this other than doubt that the post would be in GPT 4.1’s training data. The URL can’t be more than a month old.
Starting to work on the background tiles. This is what I have so far. I hope it’s not too busy or distracting.
What is this?
A UI for ANTS?! 😼
It’s not unheard of to have animals, usually kangaroos, on our line near the down end where it’s quite bushy. But this is well within the inner city. I wonder what it could be. 🤔
Devlog: Godot Project — Bricks in Level 2-3 Laid
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:
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. But it’s all pretty much done now. And just for comparison to the before screenshots I took when I started, here’s how how the level looks now:
There’s still plenty of work. The background is not yet done, nor are any of the pickups placed. The HUD needs updating to show the key gems the player has, and I also need to repair some dodgy mechanics around moving platforms. But I guess that’s just a matter of plowing ahead.
Devlog: Shutting Down Nano Journal
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.
Anyway, here are some screenshots of the final version, just before I shut it down:
You can compare this with some earlier screenshots documented in these posts:
I guess you can describe the ascetics of this project as the “minimum amount to get working.” That was true of the backend too, which was somewhat rushed and difficult to maintain. That might be why I never really gave this a lot of love as other projects like Blogging Tools. But I added some features I that I thought were neat: such as attachments, and keeping a copy of a draft in the browser’s local storage before it was sent to the server.
Anyway, I’m now in the middle of migrating the old posts over to Obsidian. One thing I’m glad I added was Git synchronisation. And given that entries were plain markdown files, migration was simply a matter of checking out the repository and moving the posts across. Easy enough work, although I am taking my time. There’s a bit of reliving involved with moving the posts over, and I’m approaching a period where some pretty sad things happened.
Anyway, that was Nano Journal. Good at what it needed to do.
It’s always something with NPM, isn’t it:
Here’s an idea: why don’t YOU rename that directory, NPM?
Devlog: Blogging Tools — All About Images
Some recent changes to Blogging Tools around images and image processing.
I gotta say, I’m not digging this white-on-white button motif in Liquid Glass. It looks buggy and unfinished. A little dated too: it reminds me of the late 2000’s when box-shadows were added to CSS 3 and websites were experimenting with using shadows as borders.
Kicking the Tyres of Ollama's Native App
Some thoughts of my experience trying out Ollama’s new native app for the first time, along with my thoughts of some of the available models.
Moving TIL Computer To Quartz
Moving TIL Computer from a blog-like technical stack to Quartz 4 to enhance its functionality as a knowledge repository, transitioning from a blog format to a more wiki-like architecture while integrating with Obsidian for content management.
There was something about the appearance of iOS 26 Safari WebViews I wasn’t too sure about, and now I know: there’s a material transition between the header and the web-page, but there’s nothing separating the two. No edge, no gradient. This looks unnatural and, dare I say, a little amateur.
🛠️ Obsidian Plugin: Daily Notes Editor
Displays all your daily notes in a single editor tab, much like Roam Research. This was a feature I liked about Roam, and when I first looked at Obsidian, I wish it had it. Trying it out on my personal vault, where the daily notes tend to be quite small.
Some First Impressions of iPadOS 26 Public Beta
Thoughts on Liquid Glass and Safari after 30 minutes of use.