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Portland recommendations by Sam

Sorted by location-ish. I tried to reduce the list to places I think are good for visitors vs. my absolute favorites, but I put a section at the bottom for places that may not be for everyone.

Breakfast / Brunch

Toki Restaurant (Downtown)

580 SW 12th Ave

My order: Grilled mackerel breakfast with a bloody mary. Their Dalgona coffee is quite good too.

How to get in touch with your emotions

I wanted to share something I've learned in the course of therapy that I felt might benefit others. Specifically, I'd like to share how to better listen to one's emotions.

Why should we do this?

You might wonder why would we want to be in better touch with our emotions. One reason why is that everybody builds a metaphor or narrative for themselves

Invertible syntax descriptions

An "invertible syntax description" is something that can be used to both parse and generate a syntax. For example, instead of defining separate toJson and fromJson functions for a given data type, an invertible syntax description could be used to provide both. There are many Haskell libraries that provide this functionality or something close to it. As far as I can tell most of them are at least inspired by Invertible syntax descriptions by Tillmann Rendel and Klaus Ostermann.

Personally I am interested in using these for HTTP routing. I frequently want to be able to define a route such as /episodes/:id.json, dispatch based on that route, and generate links to that route. Doing so manually is tedious and error prone.

	# spotify_focuser.applescript
	# An AppleScript script that decreases Spotify volume while you're not using work related apps and websites.
	# by Samuel Mortenson

	# To install, download this script and open it in Script Editor, then select File > Export and export the script as an Application with "Stay open after run handler" checked. Now you can run the exported Application and GET BACK TO WORK!
	# You shouldn't normally run random AppleScript or give it permissions, so uh read the code first before doing something dumb.

	# Other notes:
	# - Volume is only changed when a song is playing
	# - Volume does not change while Spotify is open, to stay neutral about whether or not that is work related

	{- cabal:
	build-depends: base, random, containers
	-}
	{-# LANGUAGE GADTs, ViewPatterns, GHC2021 #-}
	import Text.Printf
	import Control.Monad (liftM, ap)
	import Data.Function (on)
	import Data.List (sort, minimumBy)
	import System.Random
	import qualified Data.Map as M

	{-# LANGUAGE RankNTypes #-}
	{-# LANGUAGE ScopedTypeVariables #-}
	{-# LANGUAGE DataKinds #-}
	{-# LANGUAGE PolyKinds #-}
	{-# LANGUAGE TypeFamilies #-}
	{-# LANGUAGE UndecidableInstances #-}
	{-# LANGUAGE TypeApplications #-}
	{-# LANGUAGE TypeOperators #-}
	{-# LANGUAGE AllowAmbiguousTypes #-}
	{-# LANGUAGE FunctionalDependencies #-}

	let
	# Playdate distributes their SDK as precompiled x86_64 binaries
	# currently so we have to import cross-compiled packages for it
	# if we're not on an x86_64 system.
	pkgsIntel = import <nixpkgs> {
	crossSystem = {
	config = "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu";
	};
	};
	in

	THIS GIST IS OUT OF DATE! Please use my new project template here to get started with Zig on Playdate:
	https://github.com/DanB91/Zig-Playdate-Template


	The rest of this is preservied for historical reasons:


	This is a small snippet of some code to get you started for developing for the Playdate on Zig. This code should be used as a starting point and may not compile without some massaging. This code has only been tested out on macOS and you'll need to modify the addSharedLibrary() portion of build.zig to output a .dll or .so instead of a .dylib, depending on you platform.

	This code will help you produce both an executable for the Playdate simulator and also an executable that actually run on the Playdate hardware.

	module Main where

	import Prelude

	import Data.Symbol (class IsSymbol)
	import Prim.Row as Row
	import Prim.RowList as RowList
	import Record as Record
	import Type.Proxy