
Tuesday, September 23, 2025
More Framework. Ocular migraines.
More Framework. Ocular migraines.
The Framework 13 laptop arrived a day early, so I spent the afternoon setting it up. Iāll post more later with some details. This is so much fun I canāt stand it. I donāt want to think about how much of my life Iāve spent moving windows around a computer screen. Those days are over, I think.
I really really want to reduce my blogging footprint to a single place. see here. My new Framework laptop shipped sooner than expected. Itās estimated to arrive Tuesday, but I see that itās already in Grand Rapids. BRING IT TO ME! āHe was a father and a husband.ā People keep repeating this as if any of those things requires you to be a decent human being. Lots of vile people are fathers and husbands. ...
Itās been a minute since Iāve added one of these daily notes. I thought I was done with them, but here we are. The reason might not make much sense to many. Linux, or at least the one Iām using, doesnāt have Emacs bindings everywhere, the way macOS does. Iāve been slow to get used to it. I may never get used to it. In the meantime, the one place that does have Emacs bindings is Emacs, so thatās where Iām spending as much time as possible. The blog is Hugo and Iāve got a whole Emacs setup for publishing here. For now, thatās what Iām doing.
Iām considering removing the /notes section and just rolling everything into the main feed. Letās try āEverything is just a postā for a while. Sure, itāll be messy and too noisy for some, but it might help prevent the āis this a note or a post?ā thing every time I start typing. Iāll be happy to talk to machines once I no longer need to learn their language in order to do so. ...
I donāt want to even think about anything, let alone overthink everything.
I see Zed just received $32 million from Sequoai because āthis investment lets us pursue our vision for bringing a new kind of collaboration directly into the IDE.ā Well, never mind, then. I want nothing to do with ācollaborative editingā, nor the inevitable decline of anything touched by VC money. Thank goodness thereās BBEdit. Iām running immich on the Mac Mini via Docker and itās been working great. Itās fast and simple to use. Hosting has (knock on wood) been a breeze so far, too. I like it.
Suddenly, two copies of the weather were showing on journal posts here. I have no idea how that happened. Iāve cobbled together a fix, but sheesh. This is another thing with Hugoā¦I donāt get how most of it actually works. Thereās magic going on and I just piggyback off it with a lot of copy and paste and guesses. This is no way to run a website, is it? Cool, thereās now a Lightroom Classic plugin for Glass.photo ...
What goes here in daily notes and what goes into separate /notes? No idea. Maybe I should kill the idea of /notes and just make everything a regular post. Messy for readers, but cleaner for my brain? Dunno. I spent hours today making sense of my wiki content using Claude Code and it was a frustrating blast. Sorry, I brought up AI, again. Iām not supposed to do that.
All I wanted to do this morning was to add a class to an image in Hugo. At first I thought I needed to override my themeās image-render hook, but then I learned that could use the built-in Markdown attributes. It required a new setting or two1, but worked great for adding a style to images in a single post. In lists, however, the styles are applied to the paragraph above the image, even with wrapStandAloneImageWithinParagraph set to false. I couldnāt figure it out, so I just put the paragraph after the images. Not a solution, but solved the problem in this case. This will happen again, Iām sure. Normally, Iād just use raw HTML for this, but the image pipeline in Hugo ābundlesā wouldnāt work, and I need that. ...
Itās all just bunnies on a trampoline, now.
I would like to quit social media completely, but Iām addicted to validation. I tell myself that I actually suffer from FOMO, but the reality is that Iām looking for ālikesā and comments and, well, validation. Maybe it isnāt validation so much as it is feeling like Iām being seen. I mean, how else can one know they exist in the world? So many people that I like are starting to share opinions that I donāt like. ...
I sat down this morning, looking to journal a bit about the past few days with extended family, but Emacs threw an error on launch. I fixed that. Then, I couldnāt find a note Iād written earlier. Sometimes I would just like to write stuff, take a few notes, and find things later when I need them, but without all the fuss. I donāt know how to get there.
Good morning. What shall we wring our hands about, today?
I am off social media for a bit. Whenever I feel myself doing nothing but scrolling or looking for likes or thinking of something ālike-ableā to say, I know itās time for a break. Iām not cross-posting to Mastodon at all anymore, either. So now, whenever thereās a lull in the action of my life, I feel lost. Thatās the feeling I want to get rid of. I spent time this morning working (with Claude Code) on displaying full content on the current daily post, but it ended up fighting what the theme wants, so I decided it wasnāt worth it. Just for grins, Iām now theme shopping. ...
Iām realizing that my enthusiasm for Hugo reflects my current mood about Emacs. When Iām all-in with Emacs, Hugo is my favorite way to manage a blog. When Iām āoffā Emacs, I find other ways to blog because my whole Hugo workflow is built using Emacs. The problem right now is that Iām oscillating rapidly between Emacs and not-Emacs, so I post in multiple places. Itās fun having options, but I dislike making decisions. šµāš« ...
I continue to overthink everything related to my blog(s). I want specific things for specific posts, depending on my mood that day. Itās exhausting. The dream of course is to have One Blog. I have 4 active sites right now. Thatās more than one, for those who are counting. The new baty.photo blog that Iāve set up just for posts about photography feels like the right move. That one stays. I like using Ghost for that. ...
Iām not even supposed to be here today.
Iām a little tired of all of this. Blogging, I mean. Iāve been writing about the same things on repeat for 25 years. Arenāt we all sick of hearing about blogging tools and software and tech and bla bla bla? I am. Maybe Iāll open a barber shop, like my great grandfather did.
I donāt feel much like writing full-on blog posts, so I keep spouting off little bits and bobs over on Mastodon instead. Itās not ideal. I mean, I just added the /notes feature here, so why not use that? I honestly donāt know. Thereās something about it I donāt like. I made the font here a bit smaller and a bit less black. It looked chunky and amateurish to me, somehow. Anyway, itās different now, which might be all I wanted.