By-host configs in Doom. Custom starting window sizes.

Removed a little conditional logic from config.org

April 21, 2025 · 2 min · 350 words · mike

Hugo posting in Emacs

ox-hugo is nice and all

April 21, 2025 · 4 min · 761 words · mike

Okay. We made a snippet. ✂️

This may be my consolation prize for ox-hugo going south on me. blog-text-art-banner _____ _____ _ _____ ______ _ _ ______ ______ _____ _ _ _____ _____ _____ ___ ___ _____ _ |_ _||_ _|( )/ ___| | ___ \| | | || _ \| _ \|_ _|| \ | || __ \|_ _||_ _|| \/ || ___|| | | | | | |/ \ `--. | |_/ /| | | || | | || | | | | | | \| || | \/ | | | | | . . || |__ | | | | | | `--. \ | __/ | | | || | | || | | | | | | . ` || | __ | | | | | |\/| || __| | | _| |_ | | /\__/ / | | | |_| || |/ / | |/ / _| |_ | |\ || |_\ \ | | _| |_ | | | || |___ |_| \___/ \_/ \____/ \_| \___/ |___/ |___/ \___/ \_| \_/ \____/ \_/ \___/ \_| |_/\____/ (_) 🔥🤘🏻🔥 blog-about Hello 👋 I’m Mike. Regularly blogging at mike.puddingtime.org, tooting @[email protected] and wandering around in Portland, OR. ...

April 21, 2025 · 1 min · 199 words · mike

Saw X in Portland

This was an opportunity to try out my Smugmug/upload/image snippet app imgup (which it turns out is an amazingly common name for things that make images go up to somewhere else.)

April 21, 2025 · 1 min · 31 words · mike

Solving the Denote/Gollum links quandary

My whole “thing I wish Denote would just do” issue has been around its custom linking format: If you use Denote’s kind of awesome org-mode dblocks, you get denote: formatted links. Prot is very careful to say custom links are perfectly legal and supported by Emacs, but that leaves out the reality that there’s an ecosystem of non-Emacs org-mode tools (e.g. Plain Org) that don’t understand custom link formats. So I had this very cool thing going on with Gollum running on my Synology. Gollum is mostly the same engine GitHub uses for its own wikis, and it can understand a variety of plaintext formats (including Markdown and org). With Gollum you’ve got a web front-end with search, version control, and inline editing if you’re away from an Emacs-capable machine or just want to look a note up on a phone. ...

April 20, 2025 · 2 min · 403 words · Mike Hall

SyncTrain for Syncthing on iOS

A few years ago I gave Mobius Sync a try as a Syncthing client on my iPhone and iPad. That went about as well as you’d expect for an iOS adaptation of something that wants to be an always-on filesystem-watching daemon. It wasn’t really worth the stress of wondering what quantum state of sync everything is in, and I hated having to explicitly open it up to nudge it to sync. ...

April 20, 2025 · 2 min · 324 words · Mike Hall

Hugo Bear, ox-hugo, etc.

I’ve been feeling envious of the bear people.

April 19, 2025 · 1 min · 95 words · Mike Hall

posting elsewhere

I’m living the ‘just start typing’ life at Scribbles

November 22, 2024 · 1 min · 16 words · mike

Know when to sleep

During times of change, stay in your cot.

March 5, 2024 · 2 min · 385 words · mike

Intersitial logging

In which we clear the air of the scent of burning plastic and self-delusion.

March 5, 2024 · 6 min · 1194 words · mike