It's warm

2024-06-27

It's warm, also I've been busy.

It's been very hot in the past couple of weeks. I was thinking earlier about the Trolls in the discworld series of books, where their cognitive abilities are proportional to how cold their brains get... That's how I've felt this week - and it's been warm.

As such I made the great decision to start a couple of new projects, and to make full usage of the time I've spent learning how to use Nuxt. I very smartly began implementing them with Next.js.

I am so smart. S M R T.

The first project is going to be able to take full advantage of all the nicities of the next.js framework, with images being optimised, everything being served dynamically etc, etc. I can really go ham on it.

However the other project I'm working on is going to live on a standard html / php serving web server. As such, I'm going to be building the site as a fully static project - with the exception of any client side js that might get run. No on the fly image optimisation. No fancy routing handled automatically. Etc etc. Luckily it's a SPA build, so the scope of things is still fairly under control.

In other news I'm trying home row mods on my keyboard. I currently have a and ' as ctrl when held (actually because of colemak these are a and o), and f and j (t and n) as shift when held.

This is proving surprisingly comfy to use. I'm still at the stage where I have to think about them a lot. Also I still forget to use them sometimes when I'm in a flow of writing. I think it'll be a pretty powerful addition to my tiny keyboard toolbox.

On the flipside though... I frequently type "on", which if I hold the "o" key for too long gives me a ctrl press. Resulting in opening new windows / files all over the place. So yeah, some fine tuning and practice is needed to make this a comfortable part of my workflow.

Another bit of news is that I wanted to make use of a catch all email domain, pointed at protonmail, with the ability to filter any email address I throw at it into logical folders / subfolders.

With that I took a quick dive into the world of Sieve programming and came up with this:

require ["include", "environment", "variables", "relational", "comparator-i;ascii-numeric", "spamtest"];
require ["fileinto", "imap4flags"];

# Generated: Do not run this script on spam messages
if allof (environment :matches "vnd.proton.spam-threshold" "*", spamtest :value "ge" :comparator "i;ascii-numeric" "${1}") {
    return;
}

# Bail if email is a "direct to me" message
if allof (address :localpart :all :comparator "i;unicode-casemap" :contains ["To", "Cc", "Bcc"] ["simon"]) {
    return;
}

# Bail if this isn't example.com
if allof (not address :domain :all :comparator "i;unicode-casemap" :matches ["To", "Cc", "Bcc"] "example.com") {
    return;
}

# File into tagged folder if possible
if anyof (address :all :comparator "i;unicode-casemap" :matches ["To", "Cc", "Bcc"] "*.*@example.com") {
  set :lower :upperfirst "foldername" "${2}";
  fileinto "${foldername}";
  
} elsif anyof (address :all :comparator "i;unicode-casemap" :matches ["To", "Cc", "Bcc"] "*@example.com") {
  set :lower :upperfirst "foldername" "${1}";
  fileinto "${foldername}";

}

With this being the case I can tell someone to email me directly at simon@example.com and it'll run straight through the seive to my inbox without stopping.

If I do some online shopping, I could use amazon.shops@example.com and it'll run through to the "Shops" folder, and if I ever want to stop getting those specific emails I can just start auto-deleting them.

Finally, if I have to give an address to someone irl but I still want the incoming mail to get filed away, I can simply hand over something like stuff@example.com.

I've intentionally ordered the sieve to bail early, then go from most to least specific ruleset. I may end up adding more functionality to this in time, but I think this is a pretty decent start.

The one major gripe I have with this is that there's no way to make folders automatically when you finally fileinto. Proton just isn't supporting that - and I've seen no indication that they're likely to... So that's that. The upshot of this is that I've had to think about my categorisation a bit more up-front and create folders that I anticipate using frequently.

I also had my BSL 102 exam - which went pretty ok I think. I don't know if I've passed or not yet... So fingers crossed.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand that's my long overdue update. Yep.