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its not quite raining season yet but im already loving this.

The scooters has such good shapes and curves. This was a lot of fun.

Whereupon a German soft cheese fell down and completely severed Maya’s neck. His best friend and cat.

Sat down and sketched bit in the evening just before the sun went down. Right now it’s impossible to stay outdoors in HCMC during the daytime. Too hot.

Tove Janson, the creator a The Moomin trolls, is a big inspiration of mine. A great storyteller and illustrator.

She was born and lived in Finland, but her native language was Swedish.

Testing photo posting from phone. If all works well this should publish on my blog first then crosspost to Bluesky.

Testing indiekit -> Bluesky

It has been a bit too cumbersome to make posts because I always have to navigate around the Hugo directory and remember how to write out the front matter of Markdown files. Here’s what a typical structure looks like for a Hugo blog post:

---
title: "OSX app for blog post"
date: 2025-02-18T20:59:38
draft: false
tags: ["fluff"]
image: "images/2025_02_18.jpeg"
---
{Body}

So I made an app using AppleScript that creates a Markdown file in the blog content directory, fills out a front matter template, and opens the file in Sublime. Check it out:

set blogDir to "/Users/xxxx/blog/content/posts/"
set imageDir to "images/" -- Hugo expects images here

-- Generate date stamp
set dateStamp to do shell script "date +%Y_%m_%d"

-- Initialize counter
set counter to 1
set fileName to dateStamp & "-Untitled.md"
set filePath to blogDir & fileName

-- Check if the file exists, and increment the counter
repeat while (do shell script "test -e " & quoted form of filePath & "; echo $?") = "0"
	set counter to counter + 1
	set fileName to dateStamp & "-Untitled-" & counter & ".md"
	set filePath to blogDir & fileName
end repeat

set imageFile to imageDir & dateStamp & ".jpeg" -- Assumes image matches the date

-- Create the Markdown file
do shell script "echo '---
title: \"\"
date: '$(date +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S)'
draft: false
tags: [\"fluff\"]
image: \"" & imageFile & "\"
---
' > " & quoted form of filePath

-- Open in Sublime Text
tell application "Sublime Text"
	open filePath
end tell

Works Great!

Somewhere in Sweden 2002

So many attempt trying to find a abstracted version on Kojima that both was simple and captured his appearance. Never done drawings like this before.