No, you can't talk about that here, that's off topic. This is a site about programming.

I wrote this Android keyboard named FlickBoard. A few people even seem to like it, strange as that feels to say.

Since the project is now a smidge over a year old I figured it'd be worth writing about how we got here, and where I'd like to go from here.

A few days ago, I was talking to an old friend of mine about that weird project I've been working on for the last few months.

I've been using Nushell for a while, but mostly as an interactive shell. The other day I ended up writing my first nontrivial script with it, and... oh boy. There's an Emacs mode, but.. it only covers syntax highlighting, not highlighting.

I love systems. The idea of them. Thousands of pieces, each doing a simple - almost trivial - task, but coming together to form a beautiful tapestry. Maybe you've seen Wintergatan's Marble Machine, or one of the many Lego Great Ball Contraption builds out there. It's almost mesmerizing to watch. Maybe it's what fueled my multiple addictions to OpenTTD and Sweet Transit. Seeing tens, hundreds, of pods light up and then soon disappear in k9s.