Social media. Org-mode. Idiots with boats.

When a horrible billionaire ruins my wonder at the night sky

I am very poorly today and hate everybody and everything

My SetApp subscription was scheduled to renew today, but I didn’t let it. I figured that if I buy the apps outright that I actually use, I’ll spend around the same amount as I would on a 1-year SetApp license for both Macs. The purchased apps would either come with lifetime licenses or a small annual upgrade fee. This means next year I’ll pay a much smaller amount for all the same software. ...

I’ve been sitting here staring at the screen and clicking things mostly at random and finding nothing that sparks my interest. Am I reaching the end of something? Feels like I’m reaching the end of something. I just hope it’s the beginning of something else.

I’ve been testing a version of Johnny Decimal using folders and org-mode files. While doing this, I found myself frequently wanting to create a new .org file in the current (Dired) directory with the same name as the directory (long story). In a past life, this would have been a fairly straightforward challenge. I’m not remotely fluent in (emacs) lisp, but I’ve always enjoyed learning, so I would have dug in and figured out how to write the function myself. ...

I don’t have any real plans today other than one appointment at lunch. How shall I waste spend the day?

No more Ghost instance and a new fire pit.

Back on Micro.blog after some time away.

Maybe these daily notes are more like an internal monolog, published. The microblog will be for things I want to deliberately share. This would be what I’m using Mastodon for, currently, but I’ll crosspost to Mastodon instead. It seems that everywhere I turn, someone is giddy about Oasis getting back together. I’m not embarrassed to go on record stating that I absolutely cannot stand their music, so consider me nonplussed. ...

Thankfully, I’ve got things to do in real life today. Otherwise, I’d be wasting the day by fretting over the long-term use of Emacs. I need to get past that, but not today. I can’t think of anything more useless and boring than trying to craft the perfect AI prompt so that it will generate something useless and boring for me.

Roll of HP5 from the Leica MP

I spent the afternoon with my parents to celebrate their 62nd wedding anniversary. This roll of Tri-X was taken with the Hasselblad 500C/M and the 80mm Planar. Mom and dad My sister’s family Door into my brother-in-law’s pole barn Lula

I talk about gear and process a lot because it helps fill the gaps left by a dearth of ideas. All of the handwringing around AI or Apple or [trending topic here] has become boring. So has the naval gazing around blogging and social media and everything. I need a new thread to pull.

Abandoning the hours I spent making little scripts and shortcuts to do the things I normally do in Emacs, but in Bear, etc. instead, I spent time yesterday doing the same thing with the Emacs versions. I feel better about that, because I’m better at Emacs to begin with, so this feels like adding on to something I have rather than starting over with something new. Speaking of Emacs, I’ve added evil-mode back into my Emacs config. Now I’m really confused. I have two conflicting sets of muscle memory, both of which I quite like, but they can’t really coexist peacefully. I tried Demon-mode and other kinda-evil-but-not-really modes and none are what a want. I’m going to need to decide. ...

Backing away from my move away from Emacs again. I just can’t quit it.

I went to post something just now, but stopped to make a teeny tweak the Hugo frontmatter. Now I don’t remember what I was coming here to write. Good morning, I guess ¯_(ツ)_/¯. On the plus side, I woke up feeling actually relieved that the blog is on Hugo. Can’t explain it, but it seems like a good thing. Neither my wife nor I have been to Europe, so I’m planning a trip there for later this fall. I don’t even know which country we should start at. I’m thinking Italy. ...

Fighting my Johnny Decimal plans.

A roll of Kodak Gold 200 was languishing in the Nikon F100, so I used it up taking photos of Alice on our deck. Turns out that’s what I did with the first half of the roll, too :) Processed C-41 in the JOBO and scanned on the V850 using SilverFast.

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.