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I
got my first Kindle in 2007. I had given up on Amazon letting me do the Most Obvious Thing, which is to use the current book’s cover on the lock screen.
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Writers spend way too much time and money seeking out their “grail” pen and paper combo — the tools that will make their work so much “smoother.” It’s a pattern we’ve seen
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Everything in my life has become overwrought, overthought, overdone, and needs to be unwound.
Today, I’m dealing with this blog at copingmechanism.com. A few weeks ago I decided to go back
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It feels like the entire world (or at least my corner of) is consumed by the “how” of note-taking. Tools, workflows, processes, backlinks, and on and on. Obsidian? Roam? Paper? I read it
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Dante Stella
pokes accurate fun at videos about still photography.
Or check out their stylish walking around, contemplating… stuff while wearing messenger bags. Sir, we all know that’s a camera bag and
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When I started using Roam, I found the way it handled backlinks to be a revelation. Other software does backlinks, but Roam’s implementation made it feel new. Suddenly, backlinks felt necessary.
I
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My first annual subscription to Basecamp’s
HEY email service is about to expire, meaning it’s time to decide whether I will be renewing.
I don’t think I will.
This makes
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Using a single 32-inch monitor with my M1 Mac Mini has caused me to re-think how I manage apps and windows. After a few iterations, I’ve settled on the following layout.
This
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None of the old books on my Kindle mean anything to me. They’re just there. I never see them, I never re-read them. I never
use them for anything. Seems like a
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A week ago I decided to cancel
Doom Emacs and go back to building Emacs from Scratch, and once again I was reminded what a terrible idea that is.
Seriously, stock Emacs, even
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Is this something I can do?
Sometimes I want a better environment for writing and posting to my blog. Ghost’s post editor is fine, but not “nice”. For writing with Markdown, iA
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Of all the ways I’ve logged books, I’m thinking that plain text remains the best. I’ve been adding books to a text (Markdown) file for while now and it’s
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I recently bought a used,
5-year-old Leica SL. I didn’t buy any new lenses at the time, as I wasn’t sure I’d even like the camera. Turns out I liked
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When I
bought a used Leica SL(601) recently instead of the newer SL2 , it was mostly because I didn’t want to spend $6,000 on a camera that I wasn’t
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mi· nu· tia (noun) – a minute or minor detail—usually used in plural
I like the word “minutia”. I’ve been thinking about the various little things that happen throughout a typical day
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I fell in love with
TiddlyWiki almost exactly 2 years ago. I wrote in it almost daily until late August, 2020, when I moved full-time into a public Roam database.
Roam is great
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I joined
Flickr in 2004 and have been posting photos there, on and off, ever since. For years, Flickr was the place to share photos and discuss photography. Then Yahoo neglected and thus
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