We look good together, no? When I bought the Nikon Z f recently, the way I intended to offset the cost was to sell the Leica SL2. The mistake I made was to buy the Nikon before selling the Leica. Yesterday, I gathered up the SL2 with accessories and took some photos of it for the listing. Picking up the camera reminded me that, as nice as the Z f is, it’s not in the same league as the SL2. Everything about the Leica feels nicer. Controls, covering, grip, doors, battery, all of it. ...

I would love to be a person who goes out to photograph because I have something to say, rather than someone looking for an excuse to play with cameras and because I’m bored. I find YouTube to be 95% useless, but the other 5% is helpful and can be absolutely amazing and wonderful. If I cancel my subscriptions to every newspaper that publishes something stupid, I’ll have nowhere left to get any news. Mastodon, you say? Hardly. ...

Hey everyone, a little more empathy, please. Thanks.

New t-shirt is funny. I’ve 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 I’ll finally find something that I’m good at? There are too many people in my head. I like Matt Birchler’s 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 won’t use the app on iOS. ...

Well, I’m 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 can’t decide where stuff goes. I’ve 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.

I’d 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 ever…or fisticuffs.

What’s 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 don’t 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 don’t set out to use Howm, it just happens :). One of Howm’s unique features is its TODO implementation: ...

I’m starting to worry that Severance is just being weird for the sake of being weird. Some of this stuff had better resolve itself or I’m 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, 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 don’t know what belongs here. It’s mostly just a place to write things I’m 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 doesn’t include the paper options. I don’t 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 I’ve 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 I’m doing it digitally, using the AlphaSmart Neo 2. I dove hard into “Morning Pages” after reading Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way, but it didn’t last long. I mean, c’mon, there’s no way I can consistently write 3 lined pages, longhand, every morning. ...

I’d 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 I’m keeping it. I’m considering adding a /notes section of the blog, with tweettoot-sized posts. No titles. Probably no RSS feed. And they’d be syndicated via EchoFeed to Mastodon. It would take the place of these Journal posts. Maybe? Not sure it’s something I want, but it’s being considered. ...

I “settled” on using notmuch for my email, but now I’m 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 it’s really only a few flags. Notmuch doesn’t delete or move email on the server. This means I’m managing, for example, my Inbox, in two places. It’s not hard, but is it necessary? ...

I’m 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. I’ll be honest here: if being a supermarket janitor paid as well as being a developer at a large consultancy firm that I won’t name, I’d go back to cleaning toilets in a heartbeat. Software is never really done, especially in an “agile” shop, but least I can tell when the toilet’s clean. ...

I’m 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. It’s not the Nikon’s fault, really. It’s that modern cameras want to do everything for everyone and it’s 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 I’ve tried and failed at several times. The worst being this past month. Now I’m 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 they’re film I think they’re kind of cool. But are they? No, they’re not. Film photography is fun, and the paraphernalia is awesome, but a boring photo is still a boring photo. Here’s 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. It’s meant for the OpenGraph cover image on these daily posts. I don’t normally include the photo in the posts themselves, but I did today. For some reason. ...