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Jun 19
Denote-formatted Obsidian redux
Jun 16
Templating Denote-style naming in Obsidian
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Jun 15
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May 29
Leuven is more pleasant than I thought it would be.
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May 26
Succession Finale Hot Take
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May 23
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May 22
More plaintext primitivism with Denote
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May 21
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May 19
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May 19
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May 18
Full content in the RSS feed (and how to add a second Hugo feed)
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May 18
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May 3
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May 2
Finding an org-contact record's emails in MailMate and events in Google Calendar
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MailMate
GoogleCalendar
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May 2
Daily Notes for 2023-05-02
dayone
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Apr 30
plasticity and org-roam
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OrgRoam
JobStuff
websites
Apr 30
Exporting a DayOne commonplace book to org-roam
dayone
OrgRoam
emacs
ruby
Apr 28
Daily Notes for 2023-04-28
daily
DoomEmacs
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fonts
journalism
populism
Apr 27
Were you to attempt something like this in AppleScript
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plaintext
emacs
OrgMode
AppleScript
automation
Apr 26
Daily Notes for 2023-04-26
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zettelkasten
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YamahaTW200
Apr 25
Daily Notes for 2023-04-25
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MailMate
email
AtomicChrome
Captee
Apr 20
Quick mu4e notes
mu4e
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email
mu
Apr 18
Extending the plaintext CRM to mail contacts
OrgMode
emacs
PlainTextCRM
mu4e
Apr 17
Succumbed to mu.
emacs
mu
OfflineImap
mail
mutt
mu4e
Apr 16
An org-contacts source for lbdb
lbdb
mutt
OrgMode
OrgContacts
ruby
Apr 13
Making a plaintext personal CRM with org-contacts
OrgMode
CRM
OrgContacts
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Jan 1
Daily Notes for 2023-04-12
daily
emacs
ChatGPT
OrgMode
yellowjackets
DoomEmacs
Apr 10
Dungeons and Dragons threads its needle
movies
DnD
games
Apr 10
Writing elisp, Puppet code, and Ruby with ChatGPT.
ChatGPT
emacs
ruby
Apr 9
Macros to score mail in mutt
mutt
ruby
Apr 8
Daily notes for 2023-04-08
journal
emacs
mutt
PlainText
email
Apr 7
Considering Twitter
twitter
SocialMedia
Apr 5
First stab at literate config with Doom Emacs
DoomEmacs
OrgMode
LiterateProgramming
Apr 3
Daily notes for 2023-04-03
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emacs
vi
unix
spacemacs
DiegoSanchez
JohnWick
Mar 31
Daily notes for 2023-03-31
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org-roam
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writing
JobHunting
Mar 29
Daily notes for 2023-03-29
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sudoku
GoodSudoku
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Emacs
DayOne
BBEdit
Mac
Mar 27
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
StarTrek
tv
Mar 24
Daily notes for 2023-03-24
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emacs
VimAdventures
vim
TickTick
Mar 22
Daily notes for 2023-03-22
journal
OrgRoam
OrgMode
Emacs
barbers
movies
music
punk
X
Mar 21
Daily notes for 2023-03-21
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AppleWatch
CouchTo5K
OrgMode
Emacs
beorg
Mar 20
Daily notes for 2023-03-20
journal
emacs
DoomEmacs
mackup
JediFallenOrder
Mar 15
Bring everyone along with inclusive leadership practices
process
work
management
leadership
inclusion
Mar 13
The Pleasures of a Small Mastodon Instance
mastodon
SocialNetworking
omglol
micro.blog
Mar 12
Post-Creed Rocky I-III viewing
rocky
movies
Mar 12
Heat at the Hollywood
heat
movies
Mar 10
Daily notes for 2023-03-10
journal
SharpObjects
Mar 9
Daily notes for 2023-03-09
daily
journal
Mar 7
Retail Manager, Wholesale Manager
work
management
leadership
ChangeManagement
Mar 6
Daily notes for 2023-03-06
daily
journal
PhotosWorkbench
photography
PhotoManagement
old posts
Mar 2
Daily notes for 2023-03-02
daily
journal
journalism
tech industry
playdate
css
hugo
Mar 1
Daily notes for 2023-03-01
daily
journal
sonos
ticktick
printers
Feb 28
Daily notes for 2023-02-28
daily
journal
journalism
sublime
git
Feb 28
About old posts
meta
Feb 27
Daily notes for 2023-02-27
daily
journal
TickTick
tailscale
doom
games
css
Feb 26
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, 24 years later
movies
Feb 26
A little more on versatile bags and pouches
edc
adhd
tools
bags
Feb 26
I think my EDC solution fell on my foot.
edc
bags
tools
adhd
Feb 24
Picture of the Week: Billboard
photography
potw
Feb 21
My MOCA and EdgeRouter X makeover
moca
networking
eero
wifi
Feb 17
omg it's a weblog.lol quick start guide
omg.lol
blogging
docs
writing
Feb 16
Picture of the Week: Frost on rusty bolts
photography
potw
Feb 6
Hi, omg.lol
writing
omg.lol
TechWriting
Feb 3
Picture of the Week: Crow
photography
potw
Feb 2
Picture of the Week: Profit from the Panic
photography
potw
Feb 2
Making a Picture of the Week feature on Hugo (Updated)
hugo
photography
Feb 1
The problem with doing it right.
tech
work
creativity
Jan 31
A lot of 'experiments' aren't.
management
work
Jan 19
imgup (now with SmugMug as the image upload backend)
Jan 17
oAuth, rubocop, a Drupal recollection, and the value of play
Jan 17
Shortcut: upload stuff to Cloudflare Images service
Jan 16
calling imgup
Jan 13
Insomnia-driven development and omgloldev 1.0
Jan 12
omgloldev - now with a copyable raw template code view
Jan 8
Everyone could use a hug. A few thoughts on a couple of Masto photography squabbles.
Jan 7
Build an OPML file of new stuff in ohh.directory so you don't have to visit site-by-site in a browser
Jan 7
Why Feedly, and why Feedly + something else
Jan 6
Make an omg.lol pURL v2: Drafts native, no dialog
Jan 6
An Apple Shortcuts shortcut to use with Drafts to make omg.lol pURLs from selected text ๐๐ง๐ปโ๐ฌ๐งช๐ฅ
Jan 3
reMarkable v3 arrives and I have impressions and questions
Jan 3
Well, done with Phase 0
Jan 2
A Lightroom feature wish and a non-resolution
Jan 1
Just let me shoot, revisited^3
2022
Dec 30
The unrelaxed photographer (on taking pictures on the street)
Dec 28
It always comes back to that chart
Dec 28
Finding the rhythm
Dec 27
Lightroom Sorted
Dec 27
Fiddling with Drafts. It's a lot.
Dec 26
It sort of has to work on my phone these days.
Dec 24
A photo is found; delayed thoughts on the 6 Jun 20 BLM march
Dec 23
Photo management blues, but light at the end of the tunnel
Dec 20
New Backblaze backups. Next up: Untangle the Two Lightrooms and their woeful syncing situation.
Dec 19
Aspire to helpfulness
Dec 19
I finally un-collapsed Lightroom's B&W mixer
Dec 19
A small slip on digitial minimalization
Dec 14
Living with Twitter is living with humans
Dec 13
Just let me shoot revisited, revisited
Dec 8
DXO FilmLab and Lightroom compared by a normie
Dec 3
Exposure therapy revisited, or: A personal practice for tolerating awesome
Nov 30
Some things I learned about alt text, and some complications
Nov 26
Really digging Fujifilm Raw Studio ๐ท
Nov 25
"Just let me shoot," revisited.
Nov 23
About that room
Nov 19
My failed posting aspirations
Nov 17
Fujifilm "Just Let Me Shoot" Configuration
Nov 17
PDX rainy season "grab-n-go" prime kit for an X-Pro3 ๐ท
Nov 16
Letting go of IT brain while Twitter burns (or whatever the hell it is doing)
Nov 15
"The Whole Body Yes"
Nov 14
After rest, some clarity on a kind of bullshit
Nov 11
Social plumbing during the Mastodon Moment
Nov 8
Pausing to consider smallness
Nov 8
Pausing to consider smallness
Oct 30
A few Stage Manager notes
Oct 20
An early management experience I should probably have posted on LinkedIn
Aug 18
story bundle is a great way to get bunches of ebooks for very little; Nickelmenu restores Dropbox on Kobo Libra 2โs
Aug 15
Some initial impressions of the Opal C1
Aug 15
Some initial impressions of the Opal C1
Aug 10
The Kobo Libra 2 is pretty great
Jul 19
A little on the Ricoh GRIII X and light hiking carry
Jul 8
Never enough red pills in this present moment
Jun 20
Book note: Elite Capture by Olรบfแบนฬmi O. Tรกรญwรฒ
books
populism
politics
May 28
What Remains of That Digital Declutter
mindfulness
minimalism
May 19
That Didn't Happen!
mindfulness
May 3
Using the DACI Framework
work
process
inclusion
management
May 3
Supporting an Open Door Culture by Listening
work
inclusion
management
May 3
So You Want to Write an RFC
work
management
process
May 3
Notes on Technical Leadership Groups
work
inclusivity
management
May 3
Notes on Fostering Equitable and Inclusive Behavior
inclusivity
equity
work
management
May 3
How to Listen to People
work
listening
management
Apr 24
Finished reading: Old Man's War by John Scalzi ๐
Feb 21
Finished reading: Kill It with Fire by Marianne Bellotti ๐
Feb 13
Currently reading: How to Take Smart Notes by Sรถnke Ahrens ๐
Feb 9
Notes on a digital declutter
life
mindfulness
intentionality
media
Feb 7
The outrage clown industrial complex
media
culturewars
Feb 6
Finished reading: Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport ๐
Feb 3
After 10 minutes with the Fujifilm mini Evo Instax camera
photography
instax
fujifilm
Jan 29
Finished reading: A Lesser Photographer by C. J. Chilvers ๐
Jan 29
Finished reading: A Lesser Photographer by C. J. Chilvers ๐
Jan 25
Finished reading: A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (And Some Bears) by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling ๐
Jan 16
Finished reading: Wabi-Sabi - Photo School by Jana Mรคnz ๐๐ท
Jan 2
Finished reading: Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain by David Gerard ๐
Jan 1
Everything, All the Time, Everywhere by Stuart Jeffries ๐ (Finished)
2021
Dec 29
Quick review: Cobalt Image for normalizing raw across cameras
photography
photoediting
cobalt
Nov 21
On iPhoneography these days
photography
iphone
Oct 24
Two Gandalfs
life
Aug 29
Picking up the Outfitter 1
camping
Jan 18
A tree on the floodplain
mindfulness
photography
2020
Dec 16
'Toxic Positivity'
resilience
Dec 3
On the Leica Q2 and Fujifilm X100V
cameras
fujifilm
leica
reviews
Oct 18
Goodbye, Elsa
life
Oct 5
Cool Alone
mindfulness
Jul 14
Be here now
mindfulness
Apr 23
a pause for appreciation
mindfulness
covid
Feb 14
The picture habit: On 37,000 pictures in three years after a week of bad pictures
Feb 14
The picture habit: On 37,000 pictures in three years after a week of bad pictures
photography
Jan 31
More on the X-Pro3, which has done as it should and largely disappeared
photography
fujifilm
cameras
Jan 9
Very early thoughts on the Fujifilm X-Pro3
Jan 6
Early riser tips skimmed from a collection of articles
habits
organization
2018
Oct 20
The Mid-Life Longboard Purchase and Use Lifecycle A Selection of Advice
longboarding
Jan 21
'shopped
photography
Jan 15
Tools for Playing with Fujifilm Film Presets
cameras
photography
fujifilm
2017
Jun 26
Journals Against Stories
mindfulness
2016
Apr 17
Please be considerate of my neighbors
homelessness
2015
Jul 5
You can't say what you are, but you should try anyhow.
feminism
inclusion
2014
Dec 1
Breakfast at Oliver's
life
Apr 5
9, 23, 25, 26, 29, 33, 35, 39 & 46
life
2012
Sep 27
One jumper to the left door
life
2010
Feb 3
org-mode In Your Pocket Is a GNU-Shaped Devil
emacs
orgmode
gtd
2009
Jan 13
Predominantly Inattentive
adhd
0001
Jan 1
mutt to org-contacts
mutt
ruby
OrgContacts
ChatGPT
Jan 1
Daily Notes for 2023-04-11
hugo
org
blogging
bookmarks
pinboard
yellowjackets