QR codes and index cards?

How about I stick QR codes on index cards as a way to quickly find the original reference?

May 11, 2024 Â· 236 words

I've already stopped using Hey email

My on-again-off-again relationship with Hey email is off again

May 9, 2024 Â· 367 words

Today's software installations

So far today, (as of 9:57 am) I have installed three apps that I had deliberately avoided installing on the new Mac Mini. MailMate because I just quit Hey but still wanted something different to play with. I’ve used MailMate on and off since sometime in 2013 I think. It’s a powerful, flexible, text/Markdown-first email app. TheBrain because I’m still looking for the “Everything” app, and in my experience, TheBrain has been the best at that. If I’d never stopped using it, I’d be able to find every single thing and everything associated with that thing. ...

May 9, 2024 Â· 119 words

Howm reminds me of TiddlyWiki

Howm and TiddlyWiki share some features that I like

May 8, 2024 Â· 265 words

A Nope page

In the spirit of /Now and /Uses and /Hello pages, I’ve created a /Nope page. It’s for keeping track of things I don’t like or want to do. It’s a work in progress, but it’ll probably see more updates than my now page 😄

May 6, 2024 Â· 44 words

But what if something something?!...

Software doomsday scenarios take the fun out of everything

May 3, 2024 Â· 351 words

Adding when I should be removing

Reducing complexity is never accomplished by adding complexity.

May 2, 2024 Â· 143 words

Re-calculation

I like this calculator better than the one it replaces

May 2, 2024 Â· 213 words

Using the Apple Extended Keyboard II

Look what I found in the garage: Apple Extended Keyboard II It’s my old Apple Extended Keyboard II from 1990 or 91. I last used this one in 2015. The AEKII uses an ADB port, so I had to dig out my ADB->USB-A adapter (save everything!). I’m typing this post on the keyboard right now. The Alps switches are as great as I remember, and might be my all-time favorite switches. ...

May 1, 2024 Â· 253 words

Lightroom (Classic)...again

I switched from using Lightroom Classic (LrC) to Capture One Pro (C1) “for good” back in 2021. It wasn’t because of Adobe’s subscription model, or because I had some vague aversion to Adobe, the company. It was because I felt like I was getting better images, faster, with C1. I kept a few notes on Lightroom Classic vs Capture One but haven’t updated it in a while, so here are a few notes about why I have moved back to Lightroom Classic. ...

April 7, 2024 Â· 593 words

Using the reMarkable 2 as Read-Later device

I know, I know, the reMarkable 2 tablet is designed as a digital replacement for writing on paper. It’s not necessarily meant as a document reader. But that’s what I’ve been using it for. Reading PDF on reMarkable 2 For years now I’ve saved web articles as Markdown files, converted them to PDF, and printed them for reading later. See My read-later service is made of paper. I wanted to see how reading PDFs felt on the reMarkable, so I copied a few of my saved article PDFs to it. It turns out that I liked it very much. Highlighting text with the stylus works great, and I can even choose the color of the highlights, which don’t display on the device, but they do on the actual PDF. ...

April 2, 2024 Â· 291 words

Emacs Howm package for notes

howm is an Emacs package for taking notes. It was recommended to me recently, so I thought I’d take a look. The project page says “howm: Write fragmentarily and read collectively.” Worth a shot, right? I haven’t seen too many people talking about howm. The best introductions I’ve found are from Leah Neukirchen and Andrei Sukhovskii. I installed it via use-package with the following ;; howm package config (use-package howm :ensure t :config (setq howm-directory "~/Documents/howm/") (setq howm-home-directory "~/Documents/howm/") (setq howm-keyword-file (expand-file-name ".howm-keys" howm-home-directory)) (setq howm-history-file (expand-file-name ".howm-history" howm-home-directory)) (setq howm-view-use-grep t)) ;; (setq howm-view-grep-command "/opt/homebrew/bin/rg")) ;; Fix for help bindings (define-key howm-menu-mode-map "\C-h" nil) (define-key riffle-summary-mode-map "\C-h" nil) (define-key howm-view-contents-mode-map "\C-h" nil) ;; Sensible buffer names (add-hook 'howm-mode-hook 'howm-mode-set-buffer-name) (add-hook 'after-save-hook 'howm-mode-set-buffer-name) I couldn’t get the rg settings to work, so I’m still using grep. It’s fast enough for this test. ...

March 25, 2024 Â· 378 words

OWC miniStack STX and the Mac Mini

I bought a miniStack STX to go with the new M2 Mac Mini

March 23, 2024 Â· 376 words

What if I stopped worrying about [THING]?

Things would be easier if I stopped worrying about all sorts of meaningless computer things

March 14, 2024 Â· 112 words

I canceled my Fujifilm X100VI order

As much as I would love a new X100VI, I don’t actually need one.

March 11, 2024 Â· 212 words

A (small) improvement to photo display on Glass.photo

I don’t like the way Glass shows images in a desktop browser when the browser window is wider than around 1,000 pixels. I prefer the layout in narrower windows, but I never have mine that narrow. This means whenever I’m browsing Glass, I have to shrink the window. Left: What I want. Right: What I get The Arc browser has “Boosts” that let me easily adjust the CSS of any website, so I created one for Arc. This is it: ...

March 9, 2024 Â· 118 words

From MacBook Pro to Mac Mini

This morning it took over 30 minutes to copy a 70MB file from my MBP to the Synology over WiFi. The wait resurfaced my thoughts about having an always-on computer on my desk with some fast, attached storage. I just ordered an M2 Mac Mini (Pro) with 16GB RAM and a 512GB internal drive. Since 2021, I’ve had an over-spec’ed MacBook Pro (M1 Max) with a 2TB internal drive and 32GB of RAM. I don’t do much that requires all of that oomph, but I figured it was nice to have anyway. With the Mini, I went with the Pro version mostly for the additional ports. A smaller, 512GB internal drive should be fine, since I’ll have a number of fast SSDs always attached. I’m not worried about not having enough room for my stuff. The thing I’m most worried about is “only” 16GB RAM. I’ve had 32GB for so long that I don’t remember what it was like working with less. I’m almost certain that 16GB will be plenty for my purposes, but it still makes me a little twitchy. Plus, $1,299 still feels like relatively cheap compared to the $3k+ I spent on the MBP. ...

March 8, 2024 Â· 421 words

Perfect Days (2023)

More like Perfect Movie_

March 7, 2024 Â· 69 words

Nuke & Pave - the half-hearted edition

A tactical, localized reset of my system(s)

March 3, 2024 Â· 476 words

Whatever happened to my junk drawer?

I used to use Evernote as a junk drawer. Now what should I use?

March 3, 2024 Â· 307 words