2024 Thoughts
✦ January
Ending my OpenBSD experiment (Almost)
I did this fun thing from Derek Sivers because I wanted to play with OpenBSD and with Vultr for hosting.
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2024 Thoughts
✦ January
The care and feeding of my system
Yesterday, for some reason, the menu bar stopped showing when launching Emacs. Good grief. I had to add an explicit
2024 Thoughts
✦ January
Formatting dates in org-capture templates
I track my weight in an Org-mode table. New entries are added using an Org-mode capture template. It was bugging
2023 Thoughts
✦ December
Reduce & Simplify
If forced to come up with a theme for 2024, I'm going with "Reduce & Simplify".
2023 Thoughts
✦ December
Printing my 2024 calendars using pcal
I keep printed calendars for the current year and month pinned above my desk. It's often easier to
2023 Thoughts
✦ December
More about Org-mode Island
Earlier, I wrote:
Org-mode Island is beautiful, but lonely.
Jeremy Friesen reacted to my post with his own thoughtful take
2023 Thoughts
✦ December
Beyond the Infinite Denote
My Beyond the Infinite folder is now its own Denote silo.
A Denote "silo" is just a folder
2023 Thoughts
✦ December
Not taking the photo
I have never regretted taking a photo, but I always always regret not taking one.
I've been planning
2023 Thoughts
✦ December
I won't be joining RSS Club
When I first learned of RSS Club I thought, "Cool! How fun!"
The website says:
Congratulations on joining
2023 Thoughts
✦ December
Sending Org-journal entries to Day One
I mentioned here that I should create a lisp function for sending my org-journal entries to Day One. Turns out
2023 Thoughts
✦ December
Using old digicams
I posted a thought this morning about the current trend of using very old digicams.
I can't decide
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.
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