I haven’t been using film much this year, but once in a while it’s fun to get out and shoot a roll. I took the M6 out yesterday and finally finished
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Everything in my life has become overwrought, overthought, overdone, and needs to be unwound.
Today, I’m dealing with this blog at copingmechanism.com. A few weeks ago I decided to go back
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It feels like the entire world (or at least my corner of) is consumed by the “how” of note-taking. Tools, workflows, processes, backlinks, and on and on. Obsidian? Roam? Paper? I read it
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Dante Stella
pokes accurate fun at videos about still photography.
Or check out their stylish walking around, contemplating… stuff while wearing messenger bags. Sir, we all know that’s a camera bag and
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When I started using Roam, I found the way it handled backlinks to be a revelation. Other software does backlinks, but Roam’s implementation made it feel new. Suddenly, backlinks felt necessary.
I
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My first annual subscription to Basecamp’s
HEY email service is about to expire, meaning it’s time to decide whether I will be renewing.
I don’t think I will.
This makes
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Using a single 32-inch monitor with my M1 Mac Mini has caused me to re-think how I manage apps and windows. After a few iterations, I’ve settled on the following layout.
This
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None of the old books on my Kindle mean anything to me. They’re just there. I never see them, I never re-read them. I never
use them for anything. Seems like a
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I haven’t seen my parents in a long time, so we got together on Easter. Everyone is fully vaccinated (ok, technically I’ve only had my first shot) and it was wonderful
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I uploaded this photo of my daughter to Flickr on July 5, 2004. It was taken shortly after I got my first Leica rangefinder, (an M6 TTL), and I was practicing timing and
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I am once again having thoughts about only maintaining One True Blog™.
I know, it’s just another mood and it’ll probably change, but as I wrote a few days ago, I
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I’ve had this Minolta Autocord for so long I don’t remember where I got it. Or when, exactly.
Mine is a model RG-2 from 1962 with the Optiper-MVL shutter. I don’
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A week ago I decided to cancel
Doom Emacs and go back to building Emacs from Scratch, and once again I was reminded what a terrible idea that is.
Seriously, stock Emacs, even
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Is this something I can do?
Sometimes I want a better environment for writing and posting to my blog. Ghost’s post editor is fine, but not “nice”. For writing with Markdown, iA
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Of all the ways I’ve logged books, I’m thinking that plain text remains the best. I’ve been adding books to a text (Markdown) file for while now and it’s
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There’s a scene in Lexicon by Max Barry in which Emily is sitting in a waiting room watching a single fish swimming in the upper half of a tank shaped like a
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