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I’m really into paper-based tools lately. This is often a reaction to over-thinking my (digital) note-taking process. And oh my have I been over-thinking that process lately. Using paper is more work, but it’s worth it. Here are a few random thoughts I’ve had about it recently. Paper’s immutability is something you’d think one would put into the “Cons” column, but I find it to be its greatest feature. I’m fickle and uncertain and my digital notes suffer because of it. When I write something in a (paper) notebook, there it is, forever. I can scribble it out or copy it onto later pages, but I can’t change my mind and move it somewhere else based on whatever “system” I decide upon that day. It’ll always be right in that spot, in that notebook. I love this. ...

The new Saxon album is really good.

An extension for easily copying text from a web page into TiddlyWiki

OldBoy remains as powerful, beautiful, and unsettling as the first time.

The default error pages in httpd are awful

We’re back on Hugo for baty.net. For the past few months, I’ve been learning how to create a blog using Kirby CMS and it’s been a blast. Kirby is pleasant, easy, and fun to use. I’m glad I did it. I won’t bother you with a 2,000-word rationalization piece about switching. I just felt like using Hugo again, so here we are. I missed my nice Emacs-based publishing workflow. I missed “normal” YAML front matter. I missed having a completely static website. Who knows where we’ll be in a month, but today we’re using Hugo. I went back to the PaperMod theme. I don’t love how boring it is, but it’s clean, feature-rich, frequently updated, and easy to customize. ...

Canceling things brings mixed feelings

I canceled my Capture One subscription this morning, before it renewed for $180 for another year. I hadn’t planned to do this. The plan was to cancel my Lightroom subscription ($10/month) and run with C1 for the year. Capture One has more to offer, and I like the files I get from it better than from Lightroom. So what happened? When canceling the Lightroom subscription, I was informed that there would be an early-termination fee of $49. I’d forgotten that the $10/month subscription was subsidized by agreeing to pay for a year. They just charge me monthly. That was disappointing. ...

I just wanted to give a shout-out to Adam Porter for his Org-web-tools Emacs package. I only discovered his package a month or so ago and I’ve used it daily since. Put a URL in the clipboard, then in an Org-document run M-x org-web-tools-insert-web-page-as-entry and bam!, the page is converted into Org’s format and inserted as a heading in the current file. For example, here’s Jason Velazquez’s post about Blogging Platforms, all tucked away nicely in my “Blogging Platforms” Denote note… ...

I don’t need a new blogging platform, but if I did, I’d certainly be looking at Prose.sh. It’s blogging via sftp and rsync, which sounds awesome.

I tried OpenBSD. It’s nice. I don’t need it right now. (Or do I?)

It shouldn’t take so much time to keep my stuff running smoothly.

Generating yearly and monthly calendars using Pcal on the command line

Following up after reading Jeremy Friesen’s response to my earlier post

I’m using using Denote’s silo feature for accessing my Beyond the Infinite folder

I have never regretted taking a photo, but I always regret not taking one.

My current thinking is that our little blogging society doesn’t need secrecy, it needs visibility.

After using Arc for months, I’ve made Safari my default browser.

I mentioned that I should create a lisp function for sending my org-journal entries to Day One. Turns out I’d already done it. The only problem was that the original version assumed I was using a new org file every day. I’m now doing monthly files, so I needed to change how the text selection was made. Here’s the new function. (defun jab/dayone-add-note () "Sends current subtree as Day One entry" (interactive) (org-mark-subtree) (shell-command-on-region (point) (mark) "/usr/local/bin/dayone2 -j=Journal new" nil)) It’s not perfect, since it includes any PROPERTY drawers and leading stars, but it works and was easy to make.

How I reimplemented my Daily Notes feature from my Tinderbox blog to baty.net in Kirby