I “settled” on using notmuch for my email, but now I’m reconsidering that decision.

Notmuch is great, but using it forces me to have two email stores. One is IMAP (via Fastmail). The other is my local notmuch database. Mbsync keeps things kind of synced, but it’s really only a few flags. Notmuch doesn’t delete or move email on the server. This means I’m managing, for example, my Inbox, in two places. It’s not hard, but is it necessary?

I’m typing this in iA Writer because I read a blog post. See how susceptible I am to the opinions of others?

10 minutes later: Back in Emacs. Other editors are fun for a minute, but nope.

I’ll be honest here: if being a supermarket janitor paid as well as being a developer at a large consultancy firm that I won’t name, I’d go back to cleaning toilets in a heartbeat. Software is never really done, especially in an “agile” shop, but least I can tell when the toilet’s clean.

I’m realizing that digital photography is actually not always easier than shooting film. Wrangling the new Nikon Zf to do what I want has been the opposite of easy. It’s not the Nikon’s fault, really. It’s that modern cameras want to do everything for everyone and it’s exhausting getting them to do the right things for me.

Trying to use both Lightroom and Lightroom Classic and syncing between the two was a terrible, terrible idea that I’ve tried and failed at several times. The worst being this past month. Now I’m spending the morning either finding missing photos or dealing with duplicates. I never learn.

The other day, while bored, I shuffled around the house and burned through a roll of film, just for something to do. I took photos of random stuff that I use or see every day. The photos were boring af but, for some reason, because they’re film I think they’re kind of cool.

But are they? No, they’re not. Film photography is fun, and the paraphernalia is awesome, but a boring photo is still a boring photo. Here’s an egregious example. HP5 from the Nikon F100 on the left. Nikon Zf with an HP5 film recipe on the right.

I made a little Retrobatch script to overlay the date onto a photo. It’s meant for the OpenGraph cover image on these daily posts. I don’t normally include the photo in the posts themselves, but I did today. For some reason.

You are all a bunch of sick freaks.:

The worst part is how you enable each other. “Hey guys, just finished my basic home automation setup”, and then you post a system diagram that looks like the blueprint for a nuclear reactor. Fourteen Docker containers just to manage a suite of ‘internet of things connected shitware.

I enjoyed this :).

Heh, Dave noticed that I bought a new camera and now he’s thinking about new cameras.

In a desperate attempt to spark some enthusiasm for photography, I bought a Nikon Zf. I know, this is not the best approach, but it’s what I did so here we are. I’m jotting down a few quick thoughts and first impressions. (This isn’t a review. Just notes to myself about the camera).

The Zf¹ is meant to replace my Leica SL2. The SL2 is a terrific camera, but it’s so big and heavy that I never take it anywhere. With the Zf being smaller and lighter, I figured it would make more sense as an “everyday carry” camera.

Still a bit sick. Slept better, though. It’s hard using a CPAP with a stuffy nose.

I’m in one of those moods where I don’t feel like managing anything. It occurred to me that Emacs helps with this. Denote and Org Journal both manage the files for me. I just type. Org-attach handles my files for me. On the other hand, TiddlyWiki is Just One File, so there’s that.

The thing I’m thinking about now is going back to Lightroom desktop for photos. I’ve been using Lightroom Classic because it’s got everything, but it sure is janky compared to the new Lightroom. And with Ligthtroom I don’t need to organize everything (although I probably would, anyway). Still thinking about it.

I’m a little under the weather, still. Today will consist of tinkering and reading, mostly.