The Summer is over and temperatures have dropped significantly.

My son and I are currently watching House of the Dragons. I already watched the first two seasons two years ago, and these were the last TV shows I watched before taking a break for two years. But I thought it would be great to watch those two seasons again, before tackling season 3. First, it helps recalling the sequence of events, and second, of course, it means spending more time with my son.

A few days ago, I came across this blog post, Resurrecting ichat audio and video conferencing, which comes with a nice picture of an iSight.¹ I have fond memories of those early devices, although I never got one. However, I still have this Mighty Mouse (bluetooth), and it still works with my MacBook M4 Pro.

I still rely on Beets to process all my music. Actually, my workflow is quite simple: once I grabbed some MP3s from YT or Bandcamp, I let Beets analyze them and add tag, cover and lyrics, before I store them on an external HD. New songs are added to Apple Music afterwards, ready to play. I occasionally use Apple Music or Meta (easier to use for batch processing) to edit metadata directly. Since Beets store everything that was processed in a database I can query almost everything, from album present in my library to summary of my library itself. Looking at a recent summary, I noticed that I got a bunch of electro lately. Here’s the top 10 from beet summarize:

The totals were obtained by beet stats (separate plugin), not sure this is fully in agreement with Apple Music own statistics since I happened to remove some albums after the fact, and probably forgot to add some records in Beets database. I don’t think I am looking to get more tracks at this point. I collected almost all the albums I’ve been listening to during the past 30 years. Now it’s time to listen to them again and again.

I’m writing this post in BBEdit. Now that I managed to get a decent colorscheme, handy scripts and a comfortable set of keybindings, I think it’s time to try to use it as my default text editor for some weeks. By the way, I created a minimal vimrc that I installed on remote machines I interact with, so there’s less friction compared to my default Neovim config that was hardly in sync across all machines. And I happen to use bare Vim 9 with pleasure on macOS.

I read zero book since August. I do not feel ashamed, but I must admit I miss those quiet moments. In the meantime I did a lot of archiving on my MacBook, took some time to get up to speed with Wolfram 15 as well as to brush my skills with Stata 19. There are still so many exciting things to discover and get to grips with that I reckon I’ll be busy with them right up until Christmas.