2023 Thoughts
✦ December
What a blog should be?
There have been a flurry of recent posts around what one should write about or post on a personal blog.
Archives
2023 Thoughts
✦ November
Why I still use TheBrain
TheBrain might be the original "second brain". I mean, it's right there in the name. I
2023 Thoughts
✦ November
Philosophy of Tiddlers
My wiki, a single TiddlyWiki file, currently contains 3,594 tiddlers. I look up something in it at least once
2023 Thoughts
✦ November
Spacious-Padding Emacs package
Protesilaos Stavrou updated his spacious-padding package. I’d ignored this earlier but installed it today and it’s a nice,
2023 Thoughts
✦ November
When a minor annoyance sparks an unreasonable change
This morning, I had trouble finding something that I was certain I'd written yesterday. I was pretty sure
2023 Thoughts
✦ November
App Defaults (2023 Edition)
C’mon, everyone’s doin’ it.
Here is my list of default apps (in alphabetical order by task):
* Backups: Backblaze,
2023 Thoughts
✦ November
Subscriptions
Update I'll keep this list updated here.
A few folks1 have been posting about their current subscriptions. Here
2023 Thoughts
✦ November
Reason I love Org-mode No. 257: archiving TODOs
Just a quick appreciation of a common Org-mode feature.
By default, archiving a TODO in Org-mode moves it to another
2023 Thoughts
✦ November
Gitea
Why would anyone host their own Git repos when Github exists? Fair question!
For me, it's mostly because
2023 Thoughts
✦ November
I'm doomed...again
Emacs is less than friendly out of the box, so we customize things to suit our own personal tastes and
2023 Thoughts
✦ March
Back to Org-roam (from Denote)
🚨Update: I think Org-roam is the right answer for most people, but I could not resist the simplicity and lack
2022 Thoughts
✦ May
Use what you have
I have some pretty nice things. I'm fortunate and have more "stuff" than I could ever
2022 Thoughts
✦ April
We're using Ghost again
Here's a thing I've learned about myself: I'll work on something until it'
2022 Thoughts
✦ April
Book logging in Emacs
Logging books I read using Emacs and Org mode
2022 Thoughts
✦ April
I need a new film scanner
My Epson V750 Pro, purchased in 2009, has scanned thousands of rolls of film, slides, and prints. After making strange
2022 Thoughts
✦ April
Searching Org-roam files
Org-roam is “A plain-text personal knowledge management system” using Emacs and Org-mode and I put nearly all my notes in