Journal

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.

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 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.

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.

Being nice. The Little Mermaid and my daughter.

Street photography

Threads

Forcing myself to use Obsidian

Keyboards. No longer using Hugo bundles by default. Handling daily posts.

What of my wiki? Pinky and the HHKB.

Bombs with blinking lights. Obsidian? Harvard. Bluesky.

New (2014) Mac Mini. Another of my tech heroes turns out to be an over-privileged racist dick.

Mark Bernstein on defects vs surprises. Software decisions. Sharpening my knives.

Meta NDAs. DFW on Tourism. Complexity.

Why I don’t quit Emacs. A new (2014) Mac Mini

The Fediverse. Wasting my final years. Generational generalizations

Click tracking is costing you money. DHH 🙄. Note taking struggles continue.

What’s up with RudimentaryLathe?

Wasting time in Emacs. Essential Knowledge book bundle.

Edward Snowden quote. Ox-hugo. Featured images and the Congo theme.

I need to re-calibrate. Is Emacs a waste of time? Complexity.

Blot outage nudges me back to Hugo. Mike Hall’s Denote setup. OK Young’n.