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

The Fediverse. Wasting my final years. Generational generalizations

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

What’s up with RudimentaryLathe?

Wasting time in Emacs. Essential Knowledge book bundle.

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. ...

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

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

A new Hugo theme

Emacs from scratch continues

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

Emacs from scratch. A roll through the Hasselblad

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

Where should I write it down?

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

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

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

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. ...

I woke up from my trance and bailed on my disjointed bricolage of Fastmail->Gmail->Mimestream. Cobbling various pieces together just so I can use a single mail client on my Mac seemed…shortsighted. Mimestream is nice, but not that nice, you know? So I’m back in MailMate and/or Mu4e. Oh, and sometimes Apple Mail. But I’m thinking about switching back to notmuch from Mu4e. Now that I say it, I’m not sure this is any better :). At least I’m not relying on Gmail now, I guess.

I’m not convinced that much has improved meaningfully since we started optimizing for digital.