I had these amazing samosas and beautiful soup for lunch yesterday. What a delicious day.

I love being able to walk to the coffee shops. This morning was chilly, still in the 30s when I made my way after my morning spins and grocery stop.

Checking in on the sunbeam puppy this day after Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving Day was wet, very wet, so the sun coming out warm and full today was a real pleasure for, well, the entire neighborhood.

Such great reflections on joy and the current moment, in this essay by Lawrence Peryer on seeing David Byrne’s tour:

Depression has a gravitational field. It pulls everything toward itself, including time, attention, hope, the ability to feel pleasure in the moment it’s happening. You can know intellectually that your kids are a source of joy, that your partner loves you, that the music is beautiful. You can know it and still feel the absence of it, the gap between knowing and feeling.

Byrne’s show is not letting the audience hide in that gap. The joy isn’t theoretical. It’s not aspirational content you can file away for later. It’s happening right in front of you, thirteen people smiling at each other with genuine affection, moving in choreographed celebration of being alive together, and the invitation is implicit: this could be you. This should be you.

Hitting Maiz has been on my list since moving to Seattle, and today I had an afternoon to explore the market on my own, so I stopped in for tacos. So good! What a spot.

My little data vis all for my Peloton rides broke a couple of weeks ago, but clever developers found a way to continue using the API, so it’s back, for now. I wish Peloton would publish an official auth flow; they would see an explosion of support and interest from small and big developers, I think.

I’m continuing to use Helix and I really appreciated this quick overview from Felix Knorr, who provides a few new nice configuration options (including binding the immediate favorite gw command to a single key). I remain really happy with how ready-to-go this editor is without plugins or heavy-duty configuration, while still being discoverable and offering a lot of depth.

This feature of [Helix] is so good! Typing gw replaces the first two characters of words with random letters, and then typing those two letters navigates immediately to that word, selecting it for further operation like copy or replacing. In this example, gwcx would take my cursor straight to the word “register.”

Seven years since the last time, I saw Josh Ritter in concert last night. He played from a small stage in a cathedral, flanked by wood and stone and stained glass, giant pillars, and Sam Kassirer at a grand piano. It was a joyful show that made me feel like part of a community in this city where we now live.

Every heart is a package, tied up in knots someone else tied.

This post from Julia Evans about using Helix was just the bump I needed to check it out, after installing it but never really giving it a try some time ago. I really like how quickly it’s immediately useful without much extra work or time. It will take some adjustment from vim navigation and commands, so perhaps won’t stick, but for now I’m appreciating the intentionality of thinking about what I need to do in the editor, and find so far that I’m picking it up pretty quickly.

For what it’s worth, the only additions I’ve made to Julia’s configuration so far are for some cursor differentiation and one hard-to-break vim convention:

"0" = "goto_line_start"

# from https://docs.helix-editor.com/configuration.html
[editor.cursor-shape]
insert = "bar"
normal = "block"
select = "underline"