20241113:21 - Celebrating some small wins

Quick list of small wins that are helping

I've been busy with some "small" changes that are having an outsized positive impact to my working life

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This is just a quick list, to get it out and return to work

• I switched from iTerm2 to WezTerm (my config) — it interacts with SentinelOne better, and my laptop's battery is happy
• I started to use AeroSpace for managing the windows on my MacBooks (my config — see tweaks in console.sh and list-workspaces.sh), these are particularly helpful, though the more I get used to AeroSpace, the more I am loving its workspace management, and the tiling
• I've been regularly journaling for over a month (private repo). This is helping me to plan and execute my days, and it has the added benefit that I can review how I'm progressing, and patterns. There's more to take this further, but baby steps
• My get-container is regularly helping me when I need to make GitLab test environments, and it's a joy to use
• I wrote a pair of userscripts for GitLab:
  • GitLab Adjust Markdown Area Height allows resizing markdown editor boxes in GitLab beyond 500 pixels)
  • GitLab Profile Editor - Adjust Source Editor Height makes the Profile Editor's source box fill most of the window, rather than 500px, so I can see much better our customers' complicated CI/CD configurations. I've made a feature request issue for this also.
• espanso tweaks. I moved my Espanso setup to it's own repo, separate from dotfiles, and added some more gitlab expansions. Little things like this help a lot throughout my day
• [Playing with Duo (https://gitlab.com/mlockhart/lab/-/boards/1894499?label_name%5B%5D=log&search=duo) These experiments are helping me to make use of our new AI technology in fun ways
• Collaborating on reorganising the Support Handbook Workflows to make them more easily found. I've learnt a lot about using GitLab Epics