An absolutely gripping psychological thriller packed with a twist you won’t see coming

Do you know why I didn’t see it coming? Because the narrator is not only unreliable, he’s a liar. Also, things like, and I’m (barely) paraphrasing here, “Does she like me? I think she likes me!” What is he, 15? I was bored.

Rating: ★☆☆

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I wish I could quit social media. This seems like a good cause:

The definitive guide for escaping social media (and joining the indie web.)

Unplatform

The evidence of the past decade and a half argues strongly that platform corporations are structurally incapable of good governance, primarily because most of their central aims (continuous growth, market dominance, profit via extraction) conflict with many basic human and societal needs.

source: Bad shape

The time to snoop around for “waste” is when everything else is going so great you’re getting sort of bored.

–Winter reading, Robin Sloan

I came this close to moving my blog at baty.net back to Hugo. Even worse, I considered archiving all the content and starting fresh. I mean, completely fresh. No more dragging around years of images and posts that have been converted to and from several Markdown formats for various blogging engines. I still may, but I’ve given myself a reprieve this morning. Sort of.

Remember my recent email fiasco, during which I ended up with tens of thousands of duplicate emails? I remember it. After storming off and ignoring the problem for a week, I decided I should do something about it.

Today, I fixed it!

I have a soft spot for Pass: The Standard Unix Password Manager, but Apple’s new Passwords app has been working fine. I use Safari, so the whole thing is very convenient. 

Sometimes I get twitchy about having things in only one place, so today I decided I’d like to import my Apple Password passwords into Pass. It took me a minute, so I’m jotting down some notes here, for next time.

All I wanted was to use notmuch on my MBP to manage email, just like I do on my Mac Mini. The only viable solution I found was muchsync. There’s no macOS installer for it¹, so I figured I’d compile it myself. 

A few years ago I promised myself that if something required ./configure && make && make install I would skip it. Well, I really wanted to try it, so off I went. The make command failed immediately because it couldn’t find notmuch.h. Great, path problems. After an hour of throwing things at the wall, adding some environment variables worked:

Reading Jeremy’s post about keeping his personal journal helped clarify some of the thoughts I’ve been having about mine.

Some Entries from My Personal Journal:

On Tuesday the 12th of November, 2024, I started what I hoped to be a new habit. That is writing a personal daily journal. Over the weeks, I expanded my aspirations to include a daily check list of activities I wanted to do.

I’ve been consistently keeping a personal journal for years. I write primarily using Org-journal, a Daybook.org file, and a paper notebook. My problem isn’t that I don’t journal enough, but rather that I can’t decide where to journal.