Today I Found 2025-01-03
I have decided to move to shorter, more frequent updates to the Today I Found style posts to keep writing momentum. I need repetition to get better at something and more posts = more writing = more practice.
Reading Material
- A Snapshot of My Self-Hosted Journey in 2024 - Lorenzo: this inspired a similar post on my site and has caused me to double down on start on my planed updates to the homelab in 2025.
- How to create a highlighter marker effect in CSS: I actually implemented this effect on the homepage of this site to
highlightthe different sections. - Using Text fragments to link to any part of a page: This cool bit of web functionality allows you to link to any text on a page, not limited to
<a name="anchorname">anchors or elements with anid="anchorname"attribute. - Use iTerm to handle x-man-page URLs: The always awesome Brett Terpstra is back with a handy function that lets us quickly open man pages in a new terminal window using iTerm.
Tools
- Hishtory: A great utility that stores your shell history in context (what directory you ran the command in, whether it succeeded or failed, what host it was run on, etc). I've been a big fan of Atuin for awhile but struggled with cross machine filtering and so far Hishtory has solved that issue for me.
- Yooooomi/your_spotify: A Self hosted Spotify tracking dashboard. I've recently dipped more into Apple Music to test its recommendations for new music, so the last week off graphs has been a bit flat. Luckily you can import your extended streaming history, so I still have a great look at my music trends over time.
- gitnr - A CLI / TUI to generate .gitignore files: CLI utility to create .gitignore files using templates. Found via Terminal Trove.