I recently skipped my Sweat HIIT workout programme for nearly 3 weeks because I was exhausted and busy. I resumed the programme today and felt like Superwoman. Then I realised that I had been bumped back down to Week 1. 😭
New post: Ferris Sweep keyboard and layout
In which I talk about my latest keyboard build (which is tiiinyyy), and the layout I chose.
Finished reading: Record Of A Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers 📚I absolutely love the ‘Wafarers’ series. Becky Chambers writes such hopeful, humane, immersive sci-fi. It’s not utopian, but it does give me hope that we sentient species might be kind of ok if you get to know us.
The keyboards I can’t seem to stop making are getting smaller! This is a Ferris Sweep.
New post: Weekend sounds on BBC Radio 3.
In which I talk about the weekend breakfast shows’ Found Sounds and Sounds of the Earth segments.
I was so in the mood for this. Awkwafina and Morris were the icing on the cake for me, though Tony Leung and Michelle Yeoh were pretty good too.
New post: Hi Ho Hi Ho, it’s back to Doom I go
I probably need a sign like one of those ‘X days without a Health and Safety Incident’ to record the number of days without switching Emacs configs :-P
You know that idea that people had biphasic sleep periods in Medieval times? I reckon that — like me — they just had cats that got a bad case of the zoomies at 2am.
Wild rose hips from a walk this morning. Great walk but my boots may take some time to dry out!
I’ve learned a lot since starting to sew, but I think the most important thing is this: it is impossible to predict how much of a magnet for cat hair a fabric will be, even if you can feel the fabric. ‘Field testing’ (or should that be ‘felid testing’?) is the only way.
New post: Building a hand-wired Corne keyboard
My latest keyboard building adventure, which has been quite the marathon. But now I have pretty lights!
I’ve finished my hand wired Corne keyboard finally! Too tired to blog in long form about it now, but I’m planning to do that soon.
I may be the tiniest bit obsessed with building Corne keyboards. I was determined not to be defeated by LEDs, so I’m building a semi-hand wired one. Only one half done so far, but it works 👌
Finished reading: All Among the Barley by Melissa Harrison 📚 A vivid picture of rural Suffolk life in the 1930s. It isn’t at all rose-tinted though, and deals with the darkness as well as the beauty. Edie is a wonderful protagonist.
Finally got around to fitting the 3D printed case for the second Corne keyboard I built.
Well, that didn’t go as planned: I was trying to make a cup of tea and - tired after work - knocked a small glass out of the fridge which smashed to pieces. Have spent the last 15 mins trying to keep hungry cats out of the kitchen while sweeping up the many, many tiny shards.
New post: Emacs from scratch again
In which I admit that I’m going around the ‘from scratch’ merry-go-round again, for no other reason than I felt like it. I’m tempted to add ‘Emacs configuration’ to my list of hobbies…
We’ve been stating the radio alarm clock to BBC Radio 3 for a gentler start than the news doom of R4’s Today Programme. This morning I woke to the 3rd movement of Chopin’s Sonata No. 2 (aka the funeral march). You know the one. That was a weird vibe to wake up to.
One of my favourite neighbourhood oaks looked lovely in the light this morning.
I spent most of today fiddling with my QMK settings to make the OLED displays on my keyboard useful and pretty (mostly pretty). I now have an animated doggy, layer and modifier indicators, and WPM counter. Time well spent!
Sometimes you’re just in the mood for a big dumb film. This was that film, and it hit the spot.
New post: Learning stenography with Plover.
In which I justify, I mean explain, why I’m spending a lot of my free time learning a whole new way of typing words on a computer.
Finished reading: The Children of Jocasta by Natalie Haynes 📚. This didn’t grip me in quite the same way as Circe by Madeline Miller, but it was a good to read the Oedipus story from a female perspective.
Finished reading: Rotherweird by Andrew Caldecott 📚. It took me a few chapters to get into the genre-bending style, but then I was all in, and raced through the rest. Can’t wait to read the next two books!
New post: Building a Corne low profile keyboard
Some details (plus backstory) about my recent foray into keyboard building.