Captain’s Log, 2026.02
Check out this adorable little e-reader! It’s the open source Crosspoint Reader running on a Xteink X4. So. Freaking. Cute.
I actually got it after learning that it was supported by PlatformIO, with the intention of getting some code of my own running on it. But I’ve fallen in love with it as an e-reader and now I don’t want to give it up. It hardly weighs anything and is comfy to hold. It’s small enough to stick in a pocket or toss in a purse so I just take it everywhere, and I’m reading more as a result. I’ve finished the first Murderbot and most of Don Quixote and The Body Keeps the Score and I still have 70% battery. It’s become my favorite way to read!
Oh by the way, we’re now online.
I actually did it! The site is live! :party: :dance:
What a slog, I am such a slow writer! But once I committed to this format I left myself no choice but to get in the chair and put in the keystrokes. I thought it a clever hack when I came up with the idea, but now that it’s live I have to admit there is definitely a feeling of “oh no, what have I done?” :sweat_smile:
Of course I feel the immediate need to self-denigrate: even with putting my other projects on hold and leaving lots of stuff on the to-do list it still took a solid six weeks to get it done (that last entry just would not sit still). As I write this the page titles are broken, there is no RSS feed, and more than one page is missing content. I have no idea what happens if someone visits a page that doesn’t exist; that only just now occurred to me.
BUT I did it. It is done, it is live, and I’m actually pretty happy with it? A little surprised at that, to be honest. I was super tempted to deliver it as straight unstyled HTML but I chickened out (I might change my mind). 43 lines of CSS in the end, half of which are there to make the images look nice.
It did take up the entire month of my creative time though, I literally pushed it out the door on the last day of the month, so this will be a shorter entry than previously. But that’s okay, because you have entries all the way back to July to catch up on.
Odds & Ends
- I took on a new client at work. This may have been a mistake. I was feeling better, this writing was going well, and I thought I was well on the mend. But now I’m starting to get the headaches and anxiety spikes again. I’m not sure what I’m going to do here. I think I’m going to try not making a big deal out of it. Stay chill, limit my hours, pay attention to how I’m feeling…
Insights & Advice
- I’m allowed down time. Down time is good for me. People take down time. It is not a weakness to enjoy down time. Take the damn down time.