I've been having so much fun playing with software that I've accidentally over-complicated everything. Again. Time to dial it back. Again.
I'm re-staining the deck and it&
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Joan Westenberg
Do my choices have to be black and white?
You can spend all your time scrutinizing every decision, slicing your options thinner and thinner until there's nothing left. You
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Today, I feel like using Ghost. Tomorrow? Who knows?
I've been having so much fun the past few days with computers. I had some new ideas and installed some new software
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I installed Looq, and it immediately impressed. There was one problem, it rendered just about every type of file (csv, zip, even sqlite databases) just fine, but didn't render Markdown, which
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Remember when I said that I would probably stop shooting color film? So, yeah, I ordered some color film: Kodak ColorPlus 200. I've learned that ColorPlus is the same film as
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Matt Birchler made a nice Obsidian plugin for posting to Ghost blogs. If you're reading this, it works.
Here's his announcement post: The best way to publish to Ghost
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The Virtual OS Museum
Want to see the earliest resident monitors? The ancestor of all modern OSes (CTSS)? The earliest versions of Unix? The first OS with a desktop metaphor GUI (Xerox Star
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I made a few improvements to the home page layout. Earlier attempts at distinguishing post types only made things worse and more cluttered. Now, spacing and typography is similar for all types. I
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Thinking of starting a routine of "Unsocial Sundays" during which I avoid all social media. Today is Sunday, it's 05:52 AM, and I'm already twitchy about
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A link from an earlier note lead me to:
you can stick with it | ava's blog
Trying out new tools and things is generally cool and I love reading the hands-on
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Ascetic Computing - ratfactor by Dave Gauer resonated with me. I have been unable to "Reduce & Simplify" or "Use What I Have", even after years of trying. My
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I changed the body font here to Instrument Sans. For some reason, I find that serif fonts in blog posts feel pretentious. It's not me.
I asked Claude Code to convert
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My film arrived today. I ordered 10 rolls of Tri-X because it was cheaper than HP5 and that was new to me. I also ordered 5 rolls of ColorPlus for some reason. Probably
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