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Ealain and Life Saver TV are #15 and #19 in Top Paid Lifestyle Apple TV Apps
This is so niche it is basically meaningless, but still. Neat!
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Trying to see what working without VSCode would be like, so just Claude Code in a terminal… first speedbump was just replacing Cmd+P for filename search when I can’t remember what a specific file is named that I want to reference. Luckily there is a CLI tool called fzf that is basically Cmd+P for the terminal. brew install fzf and then adding alias fp=‘fzf | pbcopy’ to my .zshrc lets me type fp to find a file and copy the path to the clipboard. or code $(fzf) to find and open in vscode if absolutely necessary
I briefly installed tmux to do split terminals but the keyboard shortcuts for that were too weird so now I’m using iTerm2 as I should.
I just paid $99 for a git client, but it very quickly felt like an upgrade over GitUp and it’s Sublime and their reputation is sterling…
I’m also trying to run Nova today as my text editor since I paid for it ages ago and have no real need to run VS Code specifically anymore… really just changed all of my workflow tooling. I went from VSCode and GitUp to iTerm2, Nova, and Sublime Merge.
I’m over here just using github’s desktop app 
Is Nova the one from the playdate dev’s?
yeah
I used their previous code editor, Coda 2, for a long time, but that was for a different era of web development.
This isn’t specifically software engineering related but this shit is a game changer and should be how macOS works by default.
Updated my portfolio again cause I wasn’t getting to any of those Lingo case studies any time soon. So I made it even more simplistic with some small interactions here and there.
Cool thing is I did the 3D effect on the game card with claude code while I was on the toilet 
Nice!
I am going to eventually take a new stab at https://bradroot.me
I am contemplating setting up some sort of automation for it, so it can be a static site but get regular automatic updates with… something, maybe latest GitHub stars or something or another. I haven’t really thought about it too much just yet.
Your best selling apps on the app store? Or whatever the ranking is you share for elain and lifesaver haha.
that’s a good idea… I could probably do a lot of ‘live’ data points.. images generated by the ealain screensaver, stars on my repos, App Store rankings of my apps maybe, I know there’s an App Store api somewhere.
right now claude code was all too happy to throw out multiple incorrect solutions to an issue that was not actually caused by a bug in the code. thankfully i still have the capability to think for myself (for now) and was able to realize all its solutions were not actually solving anything and that it was totally misreading the code and hallucinating bugs that did not exist. stuff like this makes me feel real bad for people who are hot for vibe coding but don’t actually know how to code or manage infrastructure, they are not equipped for situations like that.
I let Claude Code take a crack at redoing my site. The design isn’t bad so far. Needs a ton of work, and it’s not accomplishing any of my goals yet. But I have the setup and data harvesting working so far… I just have to decide on what I really want this to be.
The colored geometric shapes rotate and drift across the background when the site is loaded. It’s live at https://bradroot.me already.
It has a little backend interface so I can update video game and currently playing through a web interface whenever I want.
Oooh this is looking good. I like the what’s happening section for sure. Didn’t think of a UI for myself to update currently playing but that’s a good idea. I was also thinking of a “currently watching” section.
I’ve got this set up so it’ll run in a container on my home server and regenerate once a day with new info and push to GitHub to get published by Cloudflare pages… overall I want to make a lot of changes, like probably instead of the ‘listening’ section I’ll just pull in the most recent staires post with the YouTube video embedded, and then a recent post from ihavebeenfloated, and a featured post for amiantos.net… I also want the video game thing to have an image and a link to the game so I need to flesh that out. and from there I just need to figure out the screenshot situation, maybe just remove those and keep the app icons, blah blah blah, I am sure this’ll look very different by the time I am done.
I get it haha. I spent an unreasonable amount of time on the “Currently working at” section on mine.
You know it could be cool to have the playing section link out to the steam page of the game.