Thursday, June 29, 2023

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

June 29, 2023 · 58 words

Wednesday, June 28, 2023

Meta NDAs. DFW on Tourism. Complexity.

June 28, 2023 · 200 words

Tuesday, June 27, 2023

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

June 27, 2023 · 93 words

Monday, June 26, 2023

The Fediverse. Wasting my final years. Generational generalizations

June 26, 2023 · 177 words

Sunday, June 25, 2023

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

June 25, 2023 · 201 words

Saturday, June 24, 2023

What’s up with RudimentaryLathe?

June 24, 2023 · 188 words

Friday, June 23, 2023

Wasting time in Emacs. Essential Knowledge book bundle.

June 23, 2023 · 131 words

Editing Hugo's Markdown directly (not using ox-hugo)

I have been wondering if the benefits of using ox-hugo just so I can write posts using Org-mode format is worth the extra layer of abstraction. I prefer Org-mode to Markdown, but Markdown is fine. In fact, Markdown-mode makes editing Markdown in Emacs quite pleasant. Ox-hugo is a great package, but increasingly seemed like a clever but unnecessary abstraction. One of its best features is that it makes creating new posts super easy. I never liked using the Hugo CLI, so ox-hugo solved that problem. ...

June 22, 2023 · 506 words

Thursday, June 22, 2023

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

June 22, 2023 · 89 words

Wednesday, June 21, 2023

I don’t have anything to say here today. Here’s a photo of the likely cause: Some days a notebook and a pencil is all I want

June 21, 2023 · 26 words

Tuesday, June 20, 2023

A new Hugo theme

June 20, 2023 · 63 words

Monday, June 19, 2023

Emacs from scratch continues

June 19, 2023 · 60 words

Father's Day

I spent Fathers’ Day with my dad and my daughter, so that was pretty perfect.

June 19, 2023 · 41 words

Sunday, June 18, 2023

Emacs from scratch. A roll through the Hasselblad

June 18, 2023 · 77 words

Emacs from scratch (again)

I’ve succumbed to the temptation to try building my Emacs config from scratch. We’ve been here before.

June 18, 2023 · 360 words

Saturday, June 17, 2023

Where should I write it down?

June 17, 2023 · 152 words

Friday, June 16, 2023

Bringing back the Rudimentary Lathe blog. MWeb Editor. Continued Emacs waffling.

June 16, 2023 · 91 words

Thursday, June 15, 2023

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

June 15, 2023 · 131 words

Wednesday, June 14, 2023

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

June 14, 2023 · 313 words

Renaming an item in DEVONthink to match the name of its parent group

When creating a new project folder (group) in DEVONthink, I often make use of Templates. Templates are just files in a folder somewhere that get copied into the DEVONthink database. For example, I have a project “starter” Tinderbox document named “Basic Project Template.tbx”. When inserting the template file into my DEVONthink project, it uses the same name as the original, which isn’t helpful. DEVONthink is very scriptable, so I wrote an AppleScript to rename the selected document the same as the enclosing group/folder. ...

June 12, 2023 · 304 words