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

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

The notes bakeoff

The agonized ego is a ring of defense around nothing. And should not interfere with note tool selection.

February 21, 2024 · 5 min · 1025 words · mike

Daily Notes for 2024-02-14

The Org Borg.

February 14, 2024 · 4 min · 764 words · Mike Hall

Daily Notes for 2024-01-11

Secrets of the ancients.

January 11, 2024 · 3 min · 474 words · Mike Hall

Daily notes for 2023-12-29

kitty and denote. Terminal maximalism? A few fun CLI app directories. Autojump for better CLI fs navigation. More Vampire Survivors.

December 29, 2023 · 5 min · 984 words · mike

Daily notes for 2023-12-11

Pop!_OS redux. Bad company in Emacs. You are not my spin doctor. A fun documentary about the Star Wars Holiday Special. Hugo previews in Emacs.

December 11, 2023 · 6 min · 1230 words · mike

Daily notes for 2023-07-03

John Gruber might be Satan. magit-wip-mode. I can never tell when NYT is being obtuse or unintentionally helpful. New Himalayan loom – fingers crossed.

July 3, 2023 · 6 min · 1140 words · mike

Daily notes for 2023-07-02

First Thorns match. A little more on Lemmy. Secret Invasion. Tagging Hugo posts in Emacs. Looking for monitor recommendations. Ben in France.

July 2, 2023 · 8 min · 1521 words · mike