03 july 2021
Changed our computer's color scheme last night. Nord is pretty, but it was hard to use in terminal and when programming. There wasn't enough contrast between colors for us and it just wasn't working as well as we wanted, so we went looking for a new palette. Tried Solarized since people seem to rave over it, but it just made our eyes hurt. It's way too vivid for us. Finally settled on dark Gruvbox and absolutely loving it. It's much easier to see colors without straining and it actually feels okay on the eyes. Not painful or hard to look at. Oddly comforting and cozy too! Think we'll be sticking with Gruvbox for a while to come since it's really readable and easy on the eyes.
Really need to get back to working on the notes utility but we're procrastinating because it turns out that opening an existing editor in Python3 isn't nearly as straightforward as BASH. We could just hardcore one editor in, but we want this to be customizable and relatively portable, so ideally we set the default to the user's set preferred editor in the OS and allow them to select alternatives in the settings as long as they have them installed (which requires figuring out how to check whether they're installed). Probably going to comb through the Feels code and see how it's handled there since it's pretty nice and might help us out with figuring out how to do this.
People are already starting on fireworks, ugh. It's not even the 4th and last night was bang after bang outside. Tomorrow night is going to be loud.
Our plant in botany is flowering! First one, so it's exciting. Uncommon rainbow pachypodium. Need to look up what a pachypodium actually looks like now.