Hi there! This week, we have a tool (for you terminal users), a fact about whale sharks, and a discussion about logical systems as the artistic core of the games medium. Hope you enjoy!

Tool of the Week: arttime.

95% of my professional life is spent in the terminal -- I'm writing this post in Neovim as we speak, in fact. I always keep a Mac desktop space dedicated to a full screen terminal with different panels going (music, an active game of go, etc). One of these is always arttime. I use it to run pomodoros or even just timebox a goal when I'm juggling too many projects (which is always). The start of my work day involves cycling through its rich library of ASCII art until I find something fun, typing my first task (with m), then hitting g to set a time limit. An OS alert pops when it goes off. Even when I'm not using the timer, seeing the art in my otherwise work-centric terminal panels gives me a little bump of happiness.

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