What shall we talk about today?

Every week I do a water change in my aquarium.

Am I really so creatively barren that I can’t even think of interesting AI prompts?

👋 Hello, and welcome to December!

I’ve been futzing around in Emacs all day.

I’m having one of those days where I want to burn my whole process to the ground and start over.

I took a couple of days away from social media and it was refreshing, but I’m heading back in to Mastodon today.

Good morning.

I’m seriously considering an extended break from all social media.

I’m feeling a bit overwhelmed by social media right now.

The Tinderbox blog over at baty.

If Leica can re-introduce the M6 from 20 years ago, maybe Ricoh will show up with a new GR1v.

Give everyone a fair chance to advance in the world on the merit of their talent and content of their character.

I just migrated all of my Org-roam notes into Denote.

I have switched back to using Mu4e for managing email in Emacs.

It snowed a little today.

When I grow frustrated with indecision around my note-taking process, I often seek refuge in paper notebooks.

Well, here we go again, I guess.

As much as I love Denote for notes, I almost always add my notes to the wiki instead.

Ten years ago I lived alone and had three terrific dogs (see above).

I’ve used and loved an Ember Mug for a couple years and never felt the need to pair it with the companion app.

I am still waffling about whether I want to run my own Mastodon instance forever.

I spun up my own Mastodon instance.

Sitting here, watching.

I don’t trust any YouTube channels with perfect lighting and neon in the background.

Good morning.

You’d like to force me to only post to one blog but you can’t, mwahahaha!

Have you noticed I changed the theme again?

At some point a fella needs to pick a path and walk it.

So yeah, I’ve resurrected baty.

Does anyone know how to use Emacs for just some things and not end up using it for everything?

Up until very recently, everyone ran their own servers, and much of the progress in tooling that enabled the cloud is available for your own machines as well.

Today: Tana is more useful long term than Obsidian because it’s an outliner that can easily summarize and display things over time.

I’ve noticed that Obsidian people use too many emojis in their templates.

Don’t tell anyone, but yesterday I fired up a new WordPress instance at copingmechanism.

I feel like most photos I see these days should maybe calm down a little.

Yesterday I asked, “Where would you like to see daily notes?

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I got my invitation to Tana yesterday.

Well, my weight hit a new high this morning, so I’ve got that going for me.

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Well, it’s October now, I guess.

I find this hilarious.

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Remember Blot.

You’d think there’d be at least five new me’s by now, given how often I’ve vowed to become better.

I switched back to the HHKB this morning because I prefer it by a wide margin to any other keyboard I’ve tried.

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It is unlikely, though not impossible, that someone sickened by China’s campaign against the Uyghurs is indifferent to the plight of migrants or supportive of retaining the detention center at Guantánamo.

Did you know that you can toggle the display of hidden (dot) files in macOS Finder by hitting Command-Shift-.

I’ve finally gotten access to DALL-E but I promise not to share every single thing I ask it to generate.

I received several nice responses to the recent newsletter and that makes me feel pretty good.

TextExpander is borked on my MBP, so I’m using Espanso again.

…all I’m saying is that technology can’t be responsible for only one kind of progress and wash its robot hands of the other.

I don’t know why, exactly, but I fired up a Ghost blog at rudimentarylathe.

I haven’t felt like working hard enough to write complete blog posts recently, so I did the obvious thing and dusted off my old newsletter.

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I’m typing this in Emacs as an Org-mode file and I guess that means Emacs and I have made up after our little tiff yesterday.

I spent many hours yesterday getting my Emacs configuration running (based on Crafted Emacs) so that I could continue using Notmuch for managing email.

Today’s photo is of the hammer coral I just added to the aquarium.

Everyone on the internet always talks about the same things over and over and it’s become tedious and a little boring.

I tested negative for COVID last night but there’s no way this isn’t COVID.

I wonder how long I’ll have the energy and time to do this every day.

Some days I want to live entirely within Emacs.

I love Leica M cameras so much, but my eyes are becoming more disagreeable to it by the month.

I was looking for something that I would have written while using org-roam so I re-enabled org-roam in my config and went looking.

Every page in my notebook offers such potential.

I have got to find a way to get more sleep.

Feeling the Poloaroid today.

I’ve spent time the past two days moving my email management in Emacs from Mu4e to Notmuch.

…don’t believe in the hype of magical exominds or second brains that do the work on your behalf—maximise the potential of the one mind you have and the rest will follow from there.

I’ve spent the morning learning how to use notmuch in Emacs.

Well, I sold the Leica M10-R.

Paul Ford, genius or madman?

Spent a day at the beach for the first time this summer.

Rather than using Org-mode and ox-hugo to generate today’s journal, I used Hugo’s built-in command, so… hugo new /2022/2022-07-29-Friday/index.

I hadn’t planned on doing much customization to the new theme here, but I really wanted to keep my daily journal posts, so here we are.

I’m 58 years old today.

I almost forgot I switched back to Hugo yesterday.

Good morning.

“Tools for Thought” are a lie.

I guess I just don’t like dealing with WordPress.

Hello Medium readers, authors, editors and publishers | by Tony Stubblebine.

There’s a point at which “content creators” go from sharing stuff to selling stuff and it’s around that point that I lose interest.

Quick! Throw me the keys!

The fancier my to-do system, the less I get done.

I think it’s time for YouTubers to calm down with the production values.

I’m trying a new WordPress theme on baty.

Consent-O-Matic is a browser extension that recognizes CMP (Consent Management Provider) pop-ups that have become ubiquitous on the web and automatically fills them out based on your preferences – even if you meet a dark pattern design.

I’ve given up on configuring my Emacs setup using Rational Emacs and gone back to Doom.

I decided not to continue my Feedbin subscription.

Let’s face it, I prefer writing in Org-mode.

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I miss Emacs already.

Vim: version9.

The other day I got out my can-opener and was opening a can of worms when I thought, What am I doing?