Journal

Fighting my Johnny Decimal plans.

Wouldn’t it be great if all I needed was Emacs, a browser, a terminal, and Finder? Why then do I end up with this? And it’s only 6:00 a.m.

A bit of navel-gazing around workflows

Mostly just personal journaling today. Roger Waters t-shirt. Credit reporting. Ella’s move

Busy day today. We’re moving Ella into her new apartment. I’ve been taking it easy since hurting my back last week, so I feel like I’m good enough to be useful. The best thing about being busy is that it prevents me from second guessing my move to Hugo for the blog. I love that I’m here in Emacs typing this post, but the threat of some update breaking things, or that I break things, looms. And It’s mostly stock PaperMod theme, so this is just another boring blog that looks like a lot of other boring blogs. It’s fine for now. ...

A bit about moving back to Hugo

Fortunately, my old lisp functions still worked, so creating this daily post for Hugo was just a matter of M-x jab/hugo-new-daily and here I am. You’ll have noticed (if you’re not viewing via RSS at least) that I moved the blog back to Hugo. This was unexpected, since I swore off Hugo months ago :). Anyway, I have started migrating the last six months of content over from Kirby. It’s slow going, so there’ll be some 404s for a bit.

I’m on assignment I swear some days I want to single-handedly bring back single-use devices. Remember when I used wttr to show the weather like this? _`/"".-. Light snow ,\_( ). 8(-7) °F /(___(__) ↗ 14 mph * * * 3 mi * * * 0.0 in Historically, the day after getting a COVID booster, I would feel pretty crappy. So far this morning I’m only suffering from a sore arm. This one was from Pfizer rather than Moderna, so we’ll see. ...

I’m fine. Server logs are interesting.

Losing interest in everything. And some blog notes.

Our near-blizzard conditions continue today. Alice had a hard time finding a place to poop on our walk this morning. Why would anyone want to leave Michigan in Winter? Oh, by the way I’ve switched back to Hugo for the blog

A day with Kirby, Hugo, and OpenBSD

After yesterday’s Kirby->Hugo-Kirby debacle, I’ve been thinking about why I spend so much time farting around with and on my blog. Fair question, and one I don’t really have an answer to. I guess it’s my little place on the internet and I like to have the furniture arranged just so. But “just so” changes all the time, so I keep trying new configurations. It’s fun. Also useless, and nobody but me cares, but still.

Have you ever been so enamoured with plain-text-static-html publishing that you’re willing to burn down a month of implementing a blog using Kirby CMS in order to go back to using Emacs and Markdown and Hugo? I have.

I don’t need a new blogging platform, but if I did, I’d certainly be looking at Prose.sh. It’s blogging via sftp and rsync, which sounds awesome.

I spent the afternoon with my new grandson yesterday. His name is Lincoln. His middle name is Jack. She gave him my name and that might be the nicest thing anyone has ever done for me. Proud grandpa holding Lincoln The Kirby experiment continues. I did some work on it this morning. You might notice that the home page now shows a grid of recent posts under the latest Journal entry. Also, the Posts page shows a simple list of posts. No covers or anything. I found the cover images made the page too jarring or erratic or something.

The Kirby experiment has been fun, but I’m not sure I’ll finish anything useful.

I spent some of the morning writing a new function for generating posts in Hugo. Then, I spent the rest of the morning building out a scaffolding in Kirby. This can’t end well.

I’ve been having thoughts of more Linux. I’ve got MINT running on the little MacBook Air, but also glanced at the ThinkPad Carbon running Pop_OS that’s sitting on a shelf. It would be fun to play with, but then I remembered that the most productive move I’ve ever made was to stick with running one OS on one computer. Some day that may be Pop_OS on a Thinkpad, but right now it’s macOS on a MacBook Pro. ...

Blogging options. Where I’ve landed.