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As this week is mosly tweaks for Zsh history, I've titled this journal entry to be a play on words from the Shakesphere play 'Alls well that ends well'.

The fd built-in command for Zsh is a very effective way to keep the command history clean.

Engineering Practices

Illness is all around. Around 12% of people in Germany are currenly ill through covid, flu or a stomach virus. I have some relatively mild symptoms this week.

The hunt for a new place to live continues, investigating lots of facinating places in Scotland. Discovered an Ecopark with sustainably built housing. There is one house for sale and some new builds in the near future. Requested a build plan for the new build houses.

The editors strike back

Interesting edge cases with evil-cleverparens and another question about choice of editor for complete beginners to programming.

Covid strikes again. Wiped out by the end of the week.

Striving toward consistency

Will feel good to have all Practicalli website content have a consisten look.

Material for MkDocs really helps me convey information effectively (at least in my own view).

Still have a few covid symptoms, but not as much this week. Usually only in the mornings.

Quiet before the storm

Its not as windy as previous weeks, but there is another storm on its way.

Feeling too tired for exercise over the weekend, need to pace myself at work a little better.

Hopefully as the weather gets warmer or at least sunnier it will be easier to do more outside activities.

Warmer weather

Practicalli AstroNvim User Config changed to be as additive as possible, leaving the template as unchanged as possible.

The sunnier weather is a boots to motivation, although its still very windy. At least I can get into the garden without sinking.

Another Saturday morning ride, a tough experience although not completely exhausted afterward.

A freezing start to a new year

GitHub is currently rolling out a change to make Ubuntu 24.04 the default image when running a workflow on ubuntu-latest. As some packages have been removed to save space, then its prudent to give the Practicalli GitHub workflows a test on Ubuntu 24.04.

Organising my digital music and audio books so they all fit nicely on my smart phone (using Opus audio format and VLC to play the music).

Arch Linux recommends not using pacman -Syu to update all packages and today I experience why. I can no longer login to the desktop 🤦 EDIT: this seems to be specific to the NWG-shell configuration, as the vanilla hyprland desktop does work.

I assume this is a breaking change of hyprland that NWG-shell has not resolved. This is another reason to start again with hyprland and build my own config (although this will be a big time sink, so can wait).

Its freezing temperatures outside in London, UK at the moment, so I am trying to get outside when the sun is still shining. The paths are slippy and so are the roads, so even if I felt up to cycling outside, then it could be quite tricky.

A new year... a new me

Going back to work for a rest... from all the exercise of winter solstace

Continuing to love using Neovide, although havent figured out how to use Neovide from the MacOSX launcher with AstroNvim. It works fine under Linux.