Things that Make My Heart Happy

    Since it’s the Saturday before Thanksgiving break ends, I decided to finally lock in and get work done. I tried the tried and true Pomodoro session, and absolutely fucking loved that shit. You essentially get four 25 minute sessions of uninterrupted work, with 4 minute breaks in between. I got a lot of shit done, and it doesn’t feel too overbearing since you get those small breaks. However, after the video I was watching for the timer I decided to take a 30 minute break and do things that “make my heart happy”. I realized that I haven’t come up with a list of things that makes my heart happy, so here goes.

1) Recording a video for YouTube (this is probably my favorite free-time, unproductive hobby)
2) Watching YouTube
3) Making a Lucas animation
4) Learning to code
5) Writing in this thing
6) Exercising

    When Christmas break eventually rolls around, I will actually have no “productive” things to do, which means I have plenty of time to do things that make my heart happy. A stream of videos on Yoshi’s Island and Zelda will likely be released. They did this week. 

Yoshi's Island SPREE

    If you haven't noticed, I've been uploading a ton of New! SMW2 Yoshi's Island videos recently. The main reason is really just to get more videos out and to really make more progress in this game. It's been over a year and I'm barely halfway done, which is insane. It's taken me awhile. I finished World 3 this week and I plan on starting World 4 near Christmas time when I have more time (obviously).
    Enjoy.

Wealthy ass text files

    Today I was using TextEdit on my Mac mini to learn all its features, and you can apparently add images. It’s super limited, though, since you can’t resize them or really move them at all. By default, any document you create is saved as an “rtf” file, which is essentially a text file that contains formatting like fonts, sizing, and color. However, once you add images, it becomes an “rtfd” file… I’ve never seen that. It’s pretty much specific to mac, and has a very limited selection of apps that can open it. But why? If you were going through the effort of adding color and images to your text file, why not use something more advanced like Word, Pages, or Google Docs? TextEdit has very limited options anyway. You can’t even resize the images, and your formatting options go about as far as adding color and making the text bigger. So now I look at “rtfd” as a wealthy ass text file, since it's a rich text file with a bit more money (images) added.
    I can see the appeal, though. As crazy as it sounds, the TextEdit doesn’t include any page breaks, so it’s kind of like using pageless mode on Google Docs (or like a plain txt file). In a way, that’s better than other word processing apps, since page breaks can be annoying. If you really desire a long running, huge document, then this might be a good option. You can even export the doc as a PDF.
    So the TL;DR is… TextEdit is probably best used as a tool for quick notes.