Switching between light and dark colorschemes in all terminals using a hotkey.
I recently got instant light and dark color scheme toggle working for all open terminals, including those running Vim. I used a combination of techniques from Pywal and Base16 shell, and learned some things about scripting in Linux and escape sequences along the way.
The more I understand what Base16 is: a structured way for setting up and applying color palettes (a design system), the more I am impressed by it. From: http://chriskempson.com/projects/base16/
Light and dark mode with hotkey. Mostly done using pywal, though Vim turned out to be tricky because the gruvbox package needs to have the background set. I might try using base16-shell instead...
Using only the pixels from the rendered to text to render the image.
Constraint Systems has a gallery now. From: https://constraint.systems/gallery/
Working on creating a gallery for images created using Constraint Systems. Hugo continues to be an enjoyable way to make a website.
Span - lay out and rearrange text, line by line, using Vim-like keyboard controls. From: https://span.constraint.systems
This thread, by Zach Gage, on how genre conventions serve as interaction shortcuts, got me thinking about how I use Vim conventions in my creative tools at Constraint Systems.
7/ A big part of making games involves working with genre literacy. In game design a key concept is the idea of weight: Every rule you add has a cognitive load on the player, and you must balance the weight of your rules against how meaningful they are to the play experience.
8/ An idea might be great, but if it makes the game unwieldy, ditch it. But genre-conventions are different -- they're weightless. They allow for an increased complexity and nuance in games, because they let designers include a huge number of rules without adding any weight.
Tiling window manager + xzoom + automatic reload script makes for a pretty good design-dev set-up.
Thread by @helvetica on how genre conventions are a shortcut for the cognitive load of game rules. And why that hinders movement towards new, less toxic conventions. From: https://twitter.com/helvetica/status/1274450330726645762
Jennifer Jacobs on work as a “series of productive failures” (in her case trying to mash programming and drawing together). From: https://futureofcoding.org/episodes/048
