Sean

Weekly Brain Dump #16

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At a Glance

Mental Health

I feel the quality and depth of these blogposts has started falling and it’s definitely because of my low mental health at the moment. There’s a lot going on that I will not post about here, but I’m hoping my situation improves soon as I miss having the creativity and motivation to do cool shit with computers.

Honestly, all I’ve had the energy for has been to play more Tetris The Absolute The Grand Master 2 PLUS. Thankfully I do enjoy that and my consistency is going up. I’m more regularly hitting levels 800+ and even 900+.

Tetris Tattoo

Speaking of Tetris, I finally got my tattoo to celebrate my GrandMaster ranking in Tetris the Grand Master! I got the design made and tattoo’d by Stef from Little Harajuku Tattoo.

A registration webpage for the Taylor Community site.

Everything has thick borders, there's a field for name, password, password
confirmation, and a 'I'll behave' checkbox.

Taylor Community

I’ve finally committed to styling the pages and wanted to share a sneak preview, it’s not the most exciting but I think it’s consistent with everything else I’ve been doing and think it’s easy to use.

A registration webpage for the Taylor Community site.

Everything has thick borders, there's a field for name, password, password
confirmation, and a 'I'll behave' checkbox.

A eulogy for Vim: An impressive amount of effort dedicated here to avoiding LLM generated code. I won’t be switching any time soon but it’s nice to see people fighting even harder than me.

How to Install a Gem: A great dive into what actually happens when you type gem install.

I used AI. It worked. I hated it.: Another article about LLM usage, but one that hits close to home for me.