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a screenshot showing a panel of red and blue horizontal bars indicating play counts for artists.

Inspired by all the enthusiasm for Spotify’s end-of-year Wrapped summaries, tuneR is my extremely rudimentary first start at my own version, done in R/Shiny. I’d love to hear if it works for you and what else would make it more fun!

screenshot showing the QMK configuration of a keyboard layer, with the RESET command highlighted

The hardware flash mode on the Q1 requires removing the space bar and pushing a tiny button while plugging in the keyboard. But you can program a key to do this instead. This is a massive improvement! Fiddling/Learning QMK would be terribly cumbersome otherwise.

The great part about running a static blog with Hugo is remembering how all the partials and templates and stuff work, after only minimal hunting and finding in the terminal. That done, I’m enjoying making a few small updates and doing some cleaning this Saturday afternoon.

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.