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a black and white in-game photo of a car viewed from the side, racing across a bridge An in-game photo showing a very large, colorful parade float speeding along a road.

🎮 I’m having quite a lot of fun in Forza Horizon 5, and the photo mode is great. Also, there’s an event where you drive a two-story parade float off a ramp into a canyon at 80mph. Recommended.

Keyboard programming with QMK update: Adding more vim keys to a new layer on my Q1! After a long time idly thinking it would be neat to have vim-style navigation in, for example, an Outlook compose window, I can now toggle layers and do exactly that. It’s pretty slick.

I used Migration Assistant and it’s actually anticlimactic how cleanly my shiny new MacBook came up just like the prior one. I had to run a couple of updates to get brew up to current, but otherwise everything just … worked, including all my fiddly fish shell stuff and the project I had open in R Studio. I can only imagine the engineering under the hood to make that work amid the Intel to M1 transition.

Got the first vaccine shot for Kiddo this morning, and resisted, just barely, the impulse to high-five every dang parent in the pharmacy waiting area.

A plastic bag containing grey and blue keyboard switches. The bag is labeled T167g.

Oh, this keyboard hobby is going to be a Thing, I can tell. I got some alternative switches to try in my Q1. These are quiet tactile switches, slightly stiffer than the stock Gateron browns. I swapped them in for ESC and return, and got a nice, just stronger feel with less ping.

With my iPhone constantly remind me that it’s just about out of storage space, I realize that I never got around to turning on iCloud Photo Library. I’m not sure why, but I probably had some logic. These days, is there any reason not to turn it on?