Weeknotes 73

Nice trick to show the result of a Lua expression in Neovim.

:lua = 1 + 1 instead of :lua print(vim.inspect(1 + 1))

I had a very productive, and satisfying week 😮 I have a task to figure out why this happened and how to replicate it.

The 5 Pillars of PriceOps found via tier.

The 5 Pillars of PriceOps define a methodology for pricing model definition and implementation that supports iteration, safety, and organizational alignment.

I’ve seen startups struggle with this conundrum before so it’s really nice to see something like this formalised and written down. tier itself looks neat for managing everything.

A single tool to configure, orchestrate and manage your entire billing stack.

TIL that exrc is a feature of Neovim that allows have project specific configuration. It was deprecated but brought back to life in PR #20956 🙌 It doesn’t work with init.lua though at the moment 😥 But there might be work to make this work in #13503 🙌 🎢

Fred Brooks of The Mythical Man-Month died on the 17th November 2022 😢

Update on the JPEG XL debacle from a couple of weeks ago.

Jon Sneyers explains (via Discoliam).

Fundamentally, the reason why Chrome decided to remove JPEG XL is that there’s a conflict of interest.

And…

The problem is that several people in the Chrome team — including some at high-ranking gatekeeper positions — are also AVIF contributors/proponents. This clouds their judgement since they are basically prosecutor, judge and executioner at the same time.

Pixel art as “false nostalgia”.

Last week’s listen to Adam Wiggins’ Changelog episodes rekindled my interest in Muse, his latest project. I’d heard of it before but never really used it for whatever reason.

I bought an iPad Mini and Apple Pencil a while ago to help with learning, thinking, planning, that sort of thing, but it’s mainly sat unused because I couldn’t find a workflow that clicked for me.

So I gave Muse is a go and I really like it. I used it in a planning session for the first time and found it useful considering that I didn’t really know what I was doing, and was learning as I went. That’s a good result.

I would like better drawing tools, but that’s not yet been a hindrance for me. I hope progress continues and I am going to move to a paid plan to get access to a larger drawing canvas.

Apple is also about to release Freeform with iPadOS 16.2 (Thanks, Harry!) so that is another interesting contender. I expect Apple will do the bear minimum with it though, as they tend to, but I will try it when it comes out.

The iPad Mini screen is a bit too small though, so watch this space for an extravagant larger screen iPad purchase in the near future 😬

I really wish Notion would stay logged in for more than 5 minutes, it’s very annoying, especially since they don’t have username/password login which my password manager could easily fill in for me.

Let’s talk about Acast. Who, in their right mind, is listening to a podcast, and then sitting through TWO MINUTES of adverts at the end?!

Why There’s No Such Thing as a Good Billionaire

The Math Behind Nesting Rounded Corners

The Math Behind Nesting Rounded Corners is the math behind nesting rounded corners. To nest one circle inside of another, the inner circle needs a smaller radius than the outer circle.

The Rails Foundation seems like a good thing to me. I’ve noticed a few skeptics online, we will see I guess.

To improve the documentation, education, marketing, and events of our framework to the benefit of all new and existing Rails developers, and to ensure a prosperous ecosystem that continues to improve for decades to come.