Why is it so hard to intro these letters sometimes? Does this count? This is three sentences so I’m gonna say yes. Okay stuff time: ## Interesting Stuff ### Le Dimmer I really like [HazeOver](https://hazeover.com/) on the Mac, and wanted to find a Windows equivalent. [This is said equivalent](https://le-dimmer.en.lo4d.com/windows). Doesn’t have that Mac-level polish that apps there always seem to have, but it gets the job done. I’m using it to focus on drafting this newsletter right now, actually! ### Picture-in-Picture Tool I play a lot of games in fullscreen because if I spent money on an ultrawide monitor then by God I’m gonna use every pixel of real estate. However I also have ADHD and like to have a video or movie playing at the same time. The [PiP-Tool](https://github.com/LionelJouin/PiP-Tool) lets you pop out any window you have running like you would on a browser, which is perfect for stuff like VLC and Stremio. ### Leaflet and Bear I want everyone to write more, so here are two tools to make that easier to jump into: [Leaflet](https://leaflet.pub/home) and [Bear](https://bearblog.dev/). I’ve definitely talked about the latter before, but the former is a new one I found recently that seems neat. ### Monocraft [It’s just the minecraft font](https://github.com/IdreesInc/Monocraft). That’s all! If you want a new monospaced font to work with, give it a look. ## Planted Recently [[The Pendulum of Grief]] Personal thing I wrote and will not elaborate on further, LOL. [[Absolum]] Wrote enough thoughts for this to be its own “Thoughts On” type of post. One of the best games I’ve played this year! [[Notes and Thinking and Context of Use]] A brief thing on the actual value of note-taking and why you should always be wary of productivity weirdos. ## Media Corner ### Games Finished: - **Absolum** Playing: - [[Ball x Pit]] - [[Pokemon Legends - Z-A]] - **Ghost of Yotei** - [[Beastieball]] ### TV/Film - **Silent Hill** - **Alien Romulus** ### Music - **Ghost of Yotei - Watanabe Mode** - Various Artists - **Ball x Pit OST** - Amos Roddy - **Walkabout Coffee Music Collection** - Vincent Diamante - **Some Kind of Alchemy** - Mansionair - **Happy Birthday** - Blood Cultures ## Status Update I’m using [[Focumon is Pretty Cool|Focumon]] again and I dunno why I ever left tbh. Pomodoro + little guys to collect is the perfect combination for my silly-aah brain. I continue to plug away at **The Quirmiz Knight**. It’s pretty funny to write 2000 words in a few days and find all the characters still talking at camp. It feels like I’m doing my pacing poorly, until I think about how little 2000 words is in the grand scheme of a longform story. I’ve also hit the point where I have to actually think about world-building. I’m usually not a fan because world-building can feel like “work” on a story. But reach too far into that particular pool and you’ll find yourself having written 10000 words on a history of a nation that will never actually show up in the story. Anyways by the time you read this I’ll be knee-deep in some french toast at Snooze Eatery, so the tl;dr of this status update: good! ## Signing Off Thanks for reading! Hit the ko-fi link below if you like and want to support this letter. :) https://ko-fi.com/barquq