Changing Emacs keybindings is not trivial

Technically, it’s easy. Actually doing it is a nightmare.

July 22, 2023 · 415 words

Whither Daily Notes?

So yeah, I’ve been putting Daily Notes at that other blog.

July 14, 2023 · 162 words

Monday, July 10, 2023

Being nice. The Little Mermaid and my daughter.

July 10, 2023 · 96 words

I just can't get into Obsidian

My thirty-days-of-Obsidian lasted nine days.

July 9, 2023 · 248 words

Saturday, July 08, 2023

Street photography

July 8, 2023 · 37 words

Thursday, July 06, 2023

Threads

July 6, 2023 · 60 words

Wednesday, July 05, 2023

Forcing myself to use Obsidian

July 5, 2023 · 58 words

Tuesday, July 04, 2023

Keyboards. No longer using Hugo bundles by default. Handling daily posts.

July 4, 2023 · 165 words

Monday, July 03, 2023

What of my wiki? Pinky and the HHKB.

July 3, 2023 · 217 words

Sunday, July 02, 2023

People I like. Losing stuff. AI Code is still faster.

July 2, 2023 · 153 words

Saturday, July 01, 2023

Bombs with blinking lights. Obsidian? Harvard. Bluesky.

July 1, 2023 · 179 words

Friday, June 30, 2023

New (2014) Mac Mini. Another of my tech heroes turns out to be an over-privileged racist dick.

June 30, 2023 · 228 words

Thursday, June 29, 2023

Mark Bernstein on defects vs surprises. Software decisions. Sharpening my knives.

June 29, 2023 · 58 words

Wednesday, June 28, 2023

Meta NDAs. DFW on Tourism. Complexity.

June 28, 2023 · 200 words

Tuesday, June 27, 2023

Why I don’t quit Emacs. A new (2014) Mac Mini

June 27, 2023 · 93 words

Monday, June 26, 2023

The Fediverse. Wasting my final years. Generational generalizations

June 26, 2023 · 177 words

Sunday, June 25, 2023

Click tracking is costing you money. DHH 🙄. Note taking struggles continue.

June 25, 2023 · 201 words

Saturday, June 24, 2023

What’s up with RudimentaryLathe?

June 24, 2023 · 188 words

Friday, June 23, 2023

Wasting time in Emacs. Essential Knowledge book bundle.

June 23, 2023 · 131 words

Editing Hugo's Markdown directly (not using ox-hugo)

I have been wondering if the benefits of using ox-hugo just so I can write posts using Org-mode format is worth the extra layer of abstraction. I prefer Org-mode to Markdown, but Markdown is fine. In fact, Markdown-mode makes editing Markdown in Emacs quite pleasant. Ox-hugo is a great package, but increasingly seemed like a clever but unnecessary abstraction. One of its best features is that it makes creating new posts super easy....

June 22, 2023 · 506 words