This week has gone pretty well in terms of building habits.

Last week I started two new habits; reviewing anki and using the pomodoro technique at least once per day.

Starting Monday I had planned to increase the number of pomodoros to twice a day. On Monday, I faltered and only did one pomodoro. Tuesday to today (Friday), I completed 2+ pomodoros every day.

Starting next monday I plan to do 3 per day. I don’t plan to increase it after that, unless I suddenly receive an extra hour out of nowhere.

I’m not sure if I’ll keep doing it indefinitely. Having more flexibility seems nice, but I also want to make sure I’m consistently making progress on my projects.

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I’m continuing work on the AsciiDoc inspired markup language. Right now it’s a [pulldown style API] that generates events for the developer to iterate over. At the moment I’m focused on generating HTML from those events; supporting anything else is for later.

Collapsing the Event type

One of the changes I’m happy with is collapsing the Event into a flat union(enum). We go from an Event that looks like this:

const Event = union(enum) {
    start: Tag,
    end: Tag,
    text: []const u8,

    const Tag = enum {
        title,
        link,
    };
};

To an Event that looks like this:

const Event = union(enum) {
    text: []const u8,

    heading_start: usize,
    heading_close: usize,
    link_start: []const u8,
    link_close: []const u8,
    url: []const u8,
};

This change was motivated for a few reasons:

• I had no way to pass a link’s URL in the original Event.Tag
  • pulldown-cmark solved this by using a union for Tag
• Typing out the tests was a bit annoying, with a lot of superfluous characters.

The new Event is smaller and easier to work with.

Future plans

• Actually publish these posts
  • Find a place to host it
  • Set up DNS stuff
  • Set up automatic deployment
• Figure out what exactly I want to write about