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 spent some time in Obsidian again yesterday. I do this once a month or so just to see if somehow it’s changed into something I’d like to use. Obsidian is great software, in theory, but I still find it boring and unpleasant to actually use.

A few months ago I became twitchy about my aging Synology so I replaced it with an old Mac Mini. The idea was that I understand how Macs work and if something breaks I can more easily deal with it. I never unplugged the Synology, though. You know, just in case. A week ago I started getting emails from the Synology that Drive 1 was failing. What I should have done is to unplug the thing and move on. But what I did was to order a new 8TB Seagate Ironwolf drive. ...

If forced to come up with a theme for 2024, I’m going with “Reduce & Simplify”. I haven’t formally defined it yet, but the gist of it is to use what I already have, remove things I rarely use, and rely on fewer, simpler things. Having many choices is great, until it’s not. I crossed that threshold a while ago and it’s not good for my brain. So, one app per task. One notebook. One bag. Less software. Consolidate and remove. Those sorts of things. ...

The more I lean into using Org-mode files for everything, the more isolated I’m feeling. It may be irrational, because “plain text”, but having to export or otherwise translate everything when I post to my blog or other tools is becoming less fun. Org-mode Island is beautiful, but lonely. Later: Jeremy Friesen reacts to the above with his take on the isolation of using Org-mode. Here’s some follow up.