Well, it’s been ages since I’ve updated my blog. Usually I have something I want to blog about and then I get caught up with the idea that I haven’t implemented the features I wanted in my blog. Using Hugo’s taxonomies etc., I wanted to put into my blog the following:
I like to use Boogie Board Sync to take notes, then sync them to my Laptop using dropbox. Unfortunately, the Sync creates a one page PDF for each saved screen. Therefore, having one folder per sorted topic, I open up the folder in terminal and run the following simple script which I keep in my PATH.
If you have ImageMagick installed, you can use:
import filename.png
to then select an image window via a mouse. Or, the pure command line method of:
import filename.png -window root
to take a snapshot of the whole screen.
My newborn son arrived 3 weeks ago, weighing in at a whopping 9.4 lbs. My poor wife battled out 30 hours of labor, and finally the doctors insisted that she have a C-section. Now we’re learning as we go and trying to keep our heads above water.
Surprisingly, I have been able to get coding sprints in and accomplish things here and there. Sleep has been scarce, however.
At this point, I have a strong desire to be both of two things:
Step 1 for me will be to find the time.
Although there hasn’t been any updates to this blog, I actually have been hacking away and learning some new tools which I’m very excited about. My wife has been pregnant for the last 9 months, and I’ve had to prioritize baby preparations above my blog updates. Now that most of my preparations are in place, I can finally take a breath and look at this blog again while we wait. My baby boy can come any day now (anyone have stories of hacking in between newborn raising?).
The tools I’ve been excited about are Elixir and the wonderful Phoenix Framework.
