Weeknotes 59

Winamp is back?!

ActiveRecord::SignedId seems neat (via Andrea Fomera).

Making a signed id with a purpose and expiration is the feature from Rails more people should know about.

Indeed, I didn’t know Rails had this.

I got access to DALL-E 2 this week. I’ve been fairly uninterested in “A.I.” up until now but I have to say I was impressed by what it can produce. I could see it being really useful for generating ideas.

DALL-E 2 is a new AI system that can create realistic images and art from description in natural language.

I briefly moved web browser to Firefox this week. Safari has been slow for me for quite a while, and it was becoming untenable. That was until I found the “Limit IP Address Tracking” checkbox in the Network System Preferences. Unchecking that option seems to have revived Safari 🤞

People are often surprised that I’m a Safari user, but it’s is so much more Mac-like than Chrome or Firefox. And both of those browsers lack the “Look Up” feature that I constantly use.

I wasn’t feeling very well this week so I decided to take Wednesday to Friday off. I spent those days worrying, so that was a good use of time.

I’ve been refactoring my Neovim config to make it more modular. I have several things that I want to add which will require a lot of config, and the current config is already a bit of a mess.

I decided to move to Packer from vim-plug first, as is seemed more extensible and has a more flexible configuration, which I hoped would allow me to split things up a bit. I think I’ve succeeded in cleaning my plugin definitions, so that’s a good start.

I plan on splitting out the remaining config next.