A Global Caps Lock Key, Bad Apple in Vim, password crosswords

So I just launched a global caps lock key. The idea is that whenever anyone running my code presses caps lock, it presses it for everyone else. That way we can all agree on when to use ALL CAPS!

It’s fun, and of course it is making it hard to type this blog post.

You can see it here - but I feel obligated to say that if you’re not comfortable running programs on the command line you should probably just enjoy this one from the sidelines (mom, feel free to skip it).

A few weeks ago I got Bad Apple - a compelling black and white music video that people enjoy embedding in surprising spots - running inside vim, the program I use to edit text.

Getting this working was a fun journey and I learned a lot! You can read about it here (or check out the discussion on Hacker News).

One more game for you! This one is called 1Crossword, and it creates crosswords using the passwords in 1Password the password manager.

Here's a link to the blog and code

I just figured that I use my password manager enough that it should have some good games, you know?

This one made it back to a few employees at 1Password, which is always fun to see.

That’s all I’ve got for you.

One question I have, for people that keep up with my work through this newsletter (thank you!) is: was this email ok?

That is, I held off on emailing about any individual one of these projects, since they’re all pretty small. I thought it was better to send a single email with a few of them.

Does that match what you want? Or would you rather hear about everything immediately

Let me know!

(I typed this while letting strangers TOggle My CapslOCK key; sorry for any typos, I did mY best)