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Dima Kolosov

Automating journaling with Alfred and Shortcuts

I’ve been keeping a diary journal for few years now. I’m just a human being, so I don’t write every day. And sometimes it’s just a short sentence, other times it’s a couple of reflections. But I try to stick to this habit because even minimal written reflection is much more effective than simply thinking things through in your head. As for the other benefits of journaling, there’s already so much information out there that you can easily find it.

Half of Movie 2024

Half of year has passed (with additional month) and I haven’t missed a day filming a year movie. What an achievement for me!

Yeah, there some shots that look 100% placeholders, there is strange broken video with “WTF” caption (forgot to press “record” and press it instead of “stop”). There are days with amazing events I forgot to film, and instead of I used another footage. But there are no missed days — comparing to previous movies, it’s a hell of a progress.

That’s it, that’s the post. I’m just proud of myself and want to celebrate it.

June 2024 Highlights: vacation, festivals and more

June started with preparations for vacation and then vacation itself. 3-day Rock im Park in Nürnberg, a quick trip to Dortmund (not the best time here as they were preparing for the Euro Cup), and finished trip in Helsinki.

Week at home, and here we go again: a new trip, this time to Arsenal Fest in Kragujevac.

Besides this: meetings with friends, cinema, stand-up in English, etc…

Recommended PICO-8 games

At first — what is PICO-8?

PICO-8 is a virtual machine and game engine created by Lexaloffle Games. Games are written based on LUA language, you can play in browser or natively. “Cartridges” are png-files.

The most important difference in development is the token limit (8192). Tokens are variables, operators, etc. Thus, developers often have to be creative, plus the games are short (if they are not roguelikes).