2021 Thoughts
✦ June
Pilot Custom 823 Fountain Pen
It’s been a while since I bought a new fountain pen. This is about the Pilot Custom 823.
Literally
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2021 Thoughts
✦ May
Selling cameras is usually a mistake
I’ve owned a lot of cameras and lenses.
More than average , I’d say. I’ve of course sold
2021 Thoughts
✦ May
A reluctant Lightroom user
I’ve never loved editing photos in Adobe’s Lightroom (Classic) . It does the job fine, and it has all
2021 Thoughts
✦ May
Writing everything in TiddlyWiki and publishing just the public parts
I take all my notes in TiddlyWiki now, and publish most of them to rudimentarylathe.wiki .
For the past few
2021 Thoughts
✦ May
May is "Easy Mode" month
I’m exhausted. I think it’s because I haven’t been working in more than a month and my
2021 Thoughts
✦ April
reMarkable is sleeping
I’ve been using the reMarkable 2 tablet for almost three months now. I’m often asked what I think
2021 Thoughts
✦ April
★★★ 3 stars by default
Here’s my star rating system for everything:
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Loved it!
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ It was good
⭐️⭐️⭐️ It was OK
⭐️⭐️ I didn’t like
2021 Thoughts
✦ April
Tools and Toys
…skip any definitive conclusions, as we know you might change those at any time. ????
@ron on micro.blog
Ron was
2021 Thoughts
✦ April
My new note-taking system: Don't take notes.
It feels like the entire world (or at least my corner of) is consumed by the “how” of note-taking. Tools,
2021 Thoughts
✦ April
Are automatic backlinks useful?
When I started using Roam, I found the way it handled backlinks to be a revelation. Other software does backlinks,
2021 Thoughts
✦ March
The first photo I uploaded to Flickr
I uploaded this photo of my daughter to Flickr on July 5, 2004. It was taken shortly after I got
2021 Thoughts
✦ March
The Minolta Autocord
I’ve had this Minolta Autocord for so long I don’t remember where I got it. Or when, exactly.
2021 Thoughts
✦ March
Doom Emacs from scratch
A week ago I decided to cancel Doom Emacs and go back to building Emacs from Scratch , and once again
2021 Thoughts
✦ March
Book logging in plain text
Of all the ways I’ve logged books, I’m thinking that plain text remains the best. I’ve been
2021 Thoughts
✦ February
Keeping the Leica SL
I was supposed to sell the Leica SL once the SL2-S arrived. I almost did it, too. It’s technically
2021 Thoughts
✦ January
It's not a good darkroom, but it works
My last house had a proper darkroom. It was a little janky, but there was a big sink, room for