Friday, February 28, 2025
Hey everyone, a little more empathy, please. Thanks.
Hey everyone, a little more empathy, please. Thanks.
New t-shirt is funny. Iāve been shopping for desktop computers to run Linux. Something easy and nice, like a low-mid range Thelios, maybe. This is a terrible idea and I should stop doing it at once. When do you think Iāll finally find something that Iām good at? There are too many people in my head. I like Matt Birchlerās Quick Reviews app, but I wish it would look up the year/director for me. The new iOS app might do something like that, but I wonāt use the app on iOS. ...
Well, Iām in that place again. You know the one. The one where I write the same thing in more than one, and sometimes more than two, places because I canāt decide where stuff goes. Iāve backed up and made all of my Kindle books readable on any device. I also just borrowed a book from the library, directly from my Kobo. This feels very good.
Iād like to get kaorahi (Howm) and Prot (Denote) together and maybe lock them in a room for a few hours. At the end, there would either be plans for building the greatest Emacs package everā¦or fisticuffs.
Whatās New in Emacs 30.1? - Mastering Emacs Full support for Emacs on Android, and a whole host of touch screen-related improvements to Emacs as a result. Sooo, do I need an Android phone, now? Most of today was spent farting around in Emacs. Again. I donāt mind. It was fun. I tweaked Howm. Played with Gnus. Upgraded to Emacs 30.1, and cleaned up some config. A good time was had by all. ...
My use of Howm has continued to grow organically. In other words, I donāt set out to use Howm, it just happens :). One of Howmās unique features is its TODO implementation: ...
Iām starting to worry that Severance is just being weird for the sake of being weird. Some of this stuff had better resolve itself or Iām going to be very disappointed.
We are born with hearts that want to leave a mark on the world. This ability is not lost, it is taken from us. Mike Monteiro,Ā How to draw an orange
Currently, my blog has two types of posts, Journal and Post. Journal entries are comprised of things I collect or think about during each day. I post one per day. Posts are your typical blog post. Posts are (usually) a bit longer and are about a single topic. ...
I still donāt know what belongs here. Itās mostly just a place to write things Iām thinking about. Things that have even the remotest chance of being useful or entertaining to someone else. There are at least three places I write things: Here, the wiki, and my Emacs daybook. And this doesnāt include the paper options. I donāt enjoy having to decide where to put things, but I have been unsuccessful in limiting myself to only one option. ...
My personality is a rolling amalgam of the recent movies, blog posts, and YouTube videos Iāve taken in. I have more open loops than a macrame convention.
AlphaSmart Neo 2 I started free writing again a couple weeks ago, but this time Iām doing it digitally, using the AlphaSmart Neo 2. I dove hard into āMorning Pagesā after reading Julia Cameronās The Artistās Way, but it didnāt last long. I mean, cāmon, thereās no way I can consistently write 3 lined pages, longhand, every morning. ...
Iād love to have this for my M3. The Leica Summilux-M 50 f/1.4 is the fifth lens in the Classic Line I dreamt last night that my blog had a really fun, whacky design and everyone talked about it. Then, I woke up and remembered that my blog has a plain, boring, perfectly fine design and Iām keeping it. Iām considering adding a /notes section of the blog, with tweettoot-sized posts. No titles. Probably no RSS feed. And theyād be syndicated via EchoFeed to Mastodon. It would take the place of these Journal posts. Maybe? Not sure itās something I want, but itās being considered. ...
I āsettledā on using notmuch for my email, but now Iām reconsidering that decision. Notmuch is great, but using it forces me to have two email stores. One is IMAP (via Fastmail). The other is my local notmuch database. Mbsync keeps things kind of synced, but itās really only a few flags. Notmuch doesnāt delete or move email on the server. This means Iām managing, for example, my Inbox, in two places. Itās not hard, but is it necessary? ...
Iām typing this in iA Writer because I read a blog post. See how susceptible I am to the opinions of others? 10 minutes later: Back in Emacs. Other editors are fun for a minute, but nope. Iāll be honest here: if being a supermarket janitor paid as well as being a developer at a large consultancy firm that I wonāt name, Iād go back to cleaning toilets in a heartbeat. Software is never really done, especially in an āagileā shop, but least I can tell when the toiletās clean. ...
Iām realizing that digital photography is actually not always easier than shooting film. Wrangling the new Nikon Zf to do what I want has been the opposite of easy. Itās not the Nikonās fault, really. Itās that modern cameras want to do everything for everyone and itās exhausting getting them to do the right things for me. Trying to use both Lightroom and Lightroom Classic and syncing between the two was a terrible, terrible idea that Iāve tried and failed at several times. The worst being this past month. Now Iām spending the morning either finding missing photos or dealing with duplicates. I never learn. ...
The other day, while bored, I shuffled around the house and burned through a roll of film, just for something to do. I took photos of random stuff that I use or see every day. The photos were boring af but, for some reason, because theyāre film I think theyāre kind of cool. But are they? No, theyāre not. Film photography is fun, and the paraphernalia is awesome, but a boring photo is still a boring photo. Hereās an egregious example. HP5 from the Nikon F100 on the left. Nikon Zf with an HP5 film recipe on the right. ...
Me, all proud with my new camera I made a little Retrobatch script to overlay the date onto a photo. Itās meant for the OpenGraph cover image on these daily posts. I donāt normally include the photo in the posts themselves, but I did today. For some reason. ...
You are all a bunch of sick freaks.: The worst part is how you enable each other. āHey guys, just finished my basic home automation setupā, and then you post a system diagram that looks like the blueprint for a nuclear reactor. Fourteen Docker containers just to manage a suite of āinternet of things connected shitware. I enjoyed this :).
Heh, Dave noticed that I bought a new camera and now heās thinking about new cameras. ...