I am PowerSnail. This is where I write, about programming, music, cooking, and reading. Blogging is a form of daydream: the blissful indulgence of an imagined audience, like a snail who climbs to the top of a grass blade, raising its tentacles into the wind, as if it has a voice that resounds through the whole world.
Recent status
Three updates to the blog: font-size slightly varies depending on viewport width, much smaller CSS, and using parcel-css to process CSS instead of Hugo’s built-in pipeline.
Combatting COVID still…
Recent posts
To use Grub2 theme preview on openSUSE, two environment variables needs to be overridden.
I’m excited to publish my new project, Score In URL, a simple, privacy-friendly, sheet music sharing service, where the entire content is encoded in the URL itself as a query parameter.
Preludio (Prelude in some version) is one of Bach’s best violin pieces. From measure 17 to 28, a bariolage among three strings brings us a sublime polyphonic experience, with only single notes played detaché.
Summary A short, inspirational book about how to be a productive artist. The first few chapters are about imitation, the necessity of it, and how to evolve from there.
When you are tweaking your blog, creating a new CSS rule, or making a new theme, it is not uncommon