GHDR Reboot 002: Creative Habit Kickstarting

This morning I had a lot of ideas that I failed to write down. There will be MORE ideas tomorrow so I don't have to be upset about forgetting them, but maybe I should start a habit of opening a journal entry first thing when I get to the computer.

Brain Dumps for Wednesday August 10

• server admin stuff? - I need to set up a Content Security Policy Header for davidseah.com's web server. A CSP provides instructions from the web server to your browser to tell it what is supposed to be on this page and from where it comes from. The URIports monitoring service in The Netherlands is super nice AND unusually clear and informative.
• journal entry command? - Would be nice to make a new command like garten new journal that defaults to creating today's journal entry. Let's look into that real quick!
• look at the 11ty-typescript? - I'd like to add workspace support to it, just to see how that works.
• what does magazine markup look like? - Would like to work on a parsing solution and markup language design for the kinds of things I'd like in a magazine-style document engine. The document is both the THINKING SHEET and emits the right kind of
• painting? - I want to paint the rear wall of my living room, and then move the TV onto it, and then move the computer setup back downstairs. Sheesh, that needs painting too.
• how does TufteCSS do margin notes? - if I study that CSS I can maybe start to make my own cleaner version...

Need-Driven Tasks

EYESTRAIN RELIEF LIVING ROOM REORGANIZATION

I moved my computer cart away from the main patio window, which meant I had to move all this stuff around temporarily. It does seem to help with eyestrain.

Curiosity-Driven Tasks

JOURNAL ENTRY COMMAND

I know my script already does this, it's in garten-commands.js:

'new': args => {
  const cat = args.shift();
  const dir = m_RequireCatDir(cat);
  const filename = args.shift();
  m_ValidateFilepath(filename); 
  const target = `${dir}/${filename}`;
  const exists = m_CatFileExists(target, { openQuit: true });
  let filepath = m_GetSourceDirectory(target);
  if (!exists) {
    EnsureDirectory(filepath);
    WriteFileSync(filepath, m_StarterPage(`${cat} ${filename}`));
  }
  ShellCommand('code', filepath);
}

To create a new journal entry, I usually type garten new journal 2022/MMDD.md and it creates the thing. This creates the page and titles the page as journal 2022/MMDD.md.

CHAINED TASK: MAKE A DIV CLASS WRAP SHORTCODE

I wanted to make a nice callout that showed the "win" from making the garten today command, and thought a shortcode would be cool like {% DIV %} content {% endDIV %}, which accepts a class argument that can be a class selector string. I then added a div.ghdr.win rule to my CSS styles, and made the shortcode run the contents through Markdown. Now I have a flexible way of styling specific kinds of content relatively simply. It's hacky, but it will help me prototype the various kinds of magazine block types I may need.

End of Day Sanity Checks

Is there anything I should be doing today? It's 748PM. I guess I'm done for the day and will start winding down, do a bit of tidying up and continued furniture moves.

BONUS DISCOVERY: AIR FRYER COUNTRY RIB

I didn't think this would work, but I took a single "country-style pork rib" (it's just sliced pork butt or shoulder, I think), coated it with a supermarket "Kansas City-style Dry Rub", and 20 minutes at 370F gave me this:

⊕caption20 minutes at 370F, flipped once

Very realistic! The supermarket dry rub wasn't very good tasting, but this is very promising.

Second Win, because I had to post the picture and it was drawing the wrong size!