The doodle comes from Dave Gray’s old video (Not sure of the source - sorry) But doodle itself was not the interesting thing.

Today I discovered that the Whiteboard app has excellent pen tool. I used the Size 10, and I was able to create excellent calligraphy (if I may say so myself 🫣)

Normally I add the date and name in some other app, but I could not resist writing the date in calligraphy fashion. So I did.

This is my attempt to create a sketchnote of the session he delivered during the World Sketchnote Week. ¹

Looking at other people’s sketchnotes of this session, I realize that I need to do much better. I’ve just reproduced parts of sketches from his session.

Drawing Dave’s face was original idea, rest of it seems unconnected ideas. I should have used banners, containers, lettering etc.

All the (English) words (sentences, paragraphs, chapters, books …) are made up of only 26 alphabets. (Let us leave aside punctuation marks for now 😉)

Similarly, most the (basic) drawing is made up of these 12 basic shapes, hence the visual alphabets.

This English phrase makes it easy to remember

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First Install Harper using the method appropriate for your OS.

Then add the following to languages.toml

[language-server.harper-ls]
command = "harper-ls"
args = ["--stdio"]

Restart Helix Editor.

Now you should see squiggly lines under incorrectly spelled words. 🎉

In order to see (and possibly choose) the correct spelling, take the cursor on the error and space a (Code actions)

Add the following to your (platform specific ¹) config file

shell-integration-features = ssh-env, ssh-terminfo

Now reload the configuration.

The configuration can be reloaded at runtime by pressing ctrl+shift+, (Linux) or cmd+shift+, (macOS).

Update: (13 April 2026)

Here is another solution, maybe generic, does not involve updating Ghostty’s config file

infocmp -x xterm-ghostty | ssh YOUR-SERVER -- tic -x -

This would work for other unknown terminal type errors as well. Just replace xterm-ghostty with other terminal type which is giving unknown terminal type error.

The idea comes from the book “The Magic of Thinking BIG”

Dr. Schwartz makes a point that just persistence is not enough.

Each time you try (and not succeed) learn from it, and change something (experimentation) only this will lead to (eventual) success.

I tried to show this visually by having different styles the word Try is drawn in the bottom half (but also wrote experimentation - just to be clear 😄)

Once upon a time, SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) was all rage. How does your product show up in the Search Engine.

But now a days, people have stopped using search engine. Instead they prefer to “get the answer” from one of the LLM/GenAI

The Search Engines also now have “AI summaries”, so may be AEO can double as SEO 🤷‍♂️

Software: tldraw.com

This is not shared to showcase my skills 😄 But to remind myself (maybe others 🤷‍♂️) that sketching/drawing doesn’t have to be a big deal.

When I make a mental list of things to buy (aka shopping list) I usually write it down if it is more than 2 items (else I’m bound to forget something)

Usually, I write it down as a text (doesn’t everyone ? 🤔)

But today, I thought in images. At first, I wasn’t sure whether I could draw quick sketch for the each item, but it was easy.

I had not planned what to draw today. So I decided to use this time for practice.

Here is the reference

Few things I noticed today.

Having a digital canvas has advantages of being able to zoom in. This came in handy when coloring the hair and t-shirt.

While at normal scale (no zoom) I have to fill a tiny portion so as not to worry. But I lose precision. I am unable color without leaving tiny white/uncolored marks.

This is another one from the same YouTube video I referenced earlier for the Church

This time, I wanted to try watercolors in true urban sketching style (Although this isn’t an Urban sketch 😄)

Hence, Tayasui Sketches.

I chose Water Color Paper to start.

Rather than drawing directly as suggested in the video, I did 3 steps.

First, I drew a rough sketch using Pencil tool. On a water color paper, it gave me a grainy texture. Cool! (I chose a little thicker size)