Misc

I’ve settled on WordPress for this blog.

One valid criticism of using paper for notes is that searching through notebooks is rather difficult.

I keep this blog around so that I have somewhere to post images and maybe a little background as well as the ever-popular gearhead nonsense.

My dad (right) stands in front of bar while in the Navy.

As an antidote for my usual spiral of sitting at a giant screen full of a dozen windows, staring, clicking, staring, clicking, etc.

Riccardo Mori has a few comments on the beta of Safari 15 showed up.

Yesterday I was asked something about a project I’d worked on two years ago.

Unless I’m doing some crazy non-standard layout, I’m not a fan of using WordPress’ Gutenberg editor.

I’m almost certainly using Zotero wrong.

It’s been a while since I bought a new fountain pen.

The more simple any thing is, the less liable it is to be disordered; and the easier repaired when disordered Thomas Paine I would be wise to keep this in mind.

It’s good being able to celebrate again.

I see office vs remote is very much on the menu (thanks media for using your platform to ruin our day ?

Riccardo Mori:

Keith James, Macfilos:

I spent the weekend helping a friend assemble and place a lift for his speedboat.

Cory Doctorow

Things have been stagnating around here.

I take all my notes in TiddlyWiki now, and publish most of them to rudimentarylathe.

I wonder what I would choose to do with my time if I didn’t share every detail of my life?

Software-wise, this incredibly powerful iPad is as capable as a 2014 iPad Air 2 (the oldest iPad model that can run iPadOS 14).

It’s 2021; structured data and ~transclusion~ are still the sidewalk around the quad, while screenshots are the diagonal desire path, worn to bare dirt https://twitter.

I’m exhausted.

I’ve been using the reMarkable 2 tablet for almost three months now.

Here’s my star rating system for everything: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Loved it!

…skip any definitive conclusions, as we know you might change those at any time.

TL;DR: I’m sticking with HEY for my email, but there’s a surprise twist: I’m also sticking with Fastmail.

(Updated with notes about the custom domain discount) Other than having a couple of nits to pick, I really like using HEY!

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Dante Stella, The Machine Planet:

I got my first Kindle in 2007.

Writers spend way too much time and money seeking out their “grail” pen and paper combo — the tools that will make their work so much “smoother.

Everything in my life has become overwrought, overthought, overdone, and needs to be unwound.

It feels like the entire world (or at least my corner of) is consumed by the “how” of note-taking.

Dante Stella pokes accurate fun at videos about still photography.

When I started using Roam, I found the way it handled backlinks to be a revelation.

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.

Using a single 32-inch monitor with my M1 Mac Mini has caused me to re-think how I manage apps and windows.

None of the old books on my Kindle mean anything to me.

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.

Is this something I can do?

Of all the ways I’ve logged books, I’m thinking that plain text remains the best.

I have for many years kept my photos properly named and in a dated folder hierarchy on my hard drive: /2020/12-December 2020/2020-12-02-Alice.

I recently bought a used,

When I bought a used Leica SL(601) recently instead of the newer SL2 , it was mostly because I didn’t want to spend $6,000 on a camera that I wasn’t sure I’d love.

mi·​nu·​tia (noun) – a minute or minor detail—usually used in plural

I fell in love with TiddlyWiki almost exactly 2 years ago.

I joined Flickr in 2004 and have been posting photos there, on and off, ever since.

To make this simple self-portrait, I didn’t spend an hour setting up the Wista, loading sheets of film, processing with half-expired C-41 chemistry, crossing my fingers, drying, scanning, spotting, inverting, storing, and on and on.

When I first saw the Leica SL, I was amazed by its brutalist audacity.

Film photography is a lot of work.

I’ve prided myself on my ability to shoot a Leica M3 or Hasselblad 500C/M with no meter, no auto-focus, and no auto-exposure.

Here are my remaining 35mm SLR film cameras.

Gutenberg is powerful and useful for enabling those of us who don’t feel like working too hard to create decent-looking, complex, media-rich layouts.

I have lots of film stored in my fridge.

I threw a singe strobe off to one side.

I hate scanning film negatives.

Where should I keep my notes, TheBrain or Roam?

GQ told me that

Sometimes I get bored with the way I’m running things around here and look to mix things up a bit.