/tags/journal/ Recent content in Journal on hi, it's mike Hugo -- 0.146.5 en-us Copyright © 2025, mike Sat, 02 Mar 2024 09:50:26 -0800 /posts/2024-03-02-daily-notes/ Sat, 02 Mar 2024 09:50:26 -0800 /posts/2024-03-02-daily-notes/ The perils of too much and too little friction. Dune 2. Running shoes day. /posts/2024-02-29-daily-notes/ Thu, 29 Feb 2024 20:33:53 -0800 /posts/2024-02-29-daily-notes/ Trying out commafeed for RSS. Dropping Wallabag. A handy tiddlywiki plugin. The Fujifilm X100VI. What’s traditional IT? /posts/2024-02-25-daily-notes/ Sun, 25 Feb 2024 12:18:06 -0800 /posts/2024-02-25-daily-notes/ Daily logging in Tiddlywiki with Streams. Espanso regexp expansions. /posts/2024-02-22-daily-notes/ Thu, 22 Feb 2024 18:26:57 -0800 /posts/2024-02-22-daily-notes/ Brief attempt to get Tiddlywiki to parity with my Obsidian vault. The nut milk machine. /posts/2024-02-19-daily-notes/ Mon, 19 Feb 2024 15:29:14 -0800 /posts/2024-02-19-daily-notes/ Meta sickness /posts/2024-01-09-daily-notes/ Tue, 09 Jan 2024 10:41:05 -0800 /posts/2024-01-09-daily-notes/ Multi-account, GPG-secure mutt configs. Mutt message scoring with Ruby, and score color-coding. /posts/2024-01-04-daily-notes/ Thu, 04 Jan 2024 08:05:34 -0800 /posts/2024-01-04-daily-notes/ More Zellij. Stardew Valley. /posts/2024-01-03-daily-notes/ Wed, 03 Jan 2024 16:04:07 -0800 /posts/2024-01-03-daily-notes/ More a/v messing around. Zellij: A tmux alternative. /posts/2024-01-01-daily-notes/ Mon, 01 Jan 2024 13:18:52 -0800 /posts/2024-01-01-daily-notes/ Auto-disowning in zsh. A little CLI ditty for scheduling work blocks in Google Calendar. /posts/2023-12-31-daily-notes/ Sun, 31 Dec 2023 10:11:06 -0800 /posts/2023-12-31-daily-notes/ Suffix aliases in zsh. More Remember the Milk from the CLI. /posts/2023-12-29-daily-notes/ Fri, 29 Dec 2023 15:08:36 -0800 /posts/2023-12-29-daily-notes/ kitty and denote. Terminal maximalism? A few fun CLI app directories. Autojump for better CLI fs navigation. More Vampire Survivors. /posts/2023-12-28-daily-notes/ Thu, 28 Dec 2023 11:30:38 -0800 /posts/2023-12-28-daily-notes/ A CLI for Remember the Milk. Vampire Survivors. A little on Substack. /posts/2023-12-27-daily-notes/ Wed, 27 Dec 2023 17:13:08 -0800 /posts/2023-12-27-daily-notes/ Todos and agenda with kitty. Better Zoom audio. Roy Clark, guitar god. /posts/2023-12-26-daily-notes/ Tue, 26 Dec 2023 21:17:33 -0800 /posts/2023-12-26-daily-notes/ Detroit: Become Human. Linux config cloning with Mackup. Machine-specific configs with kitty. Making kitty your default GNOME terminal (sort of). /posts/2023-12-25-daily-notes/ Mon, 25 Dec 2023 13:06:19 -0800 /posts/2023-12-25-daily-notes/ Kitty (and GNOME generally) with the Monaspace fonts. My first game of Cards Against Humanity. Emacs as a systemd service. /posts/2023-12-23-daily-notes/ Sat, 23 Dec 2023 10:57:59 -0800 /posts/2023-12-23-daily-notes/ Customizing trackpad stuff outside desktop environments. I’m over realism. Cozymas. /posts/2023-12-20-daily-notes/ Wed, 20 Dec 2023 09:11:35 -0800 /posts/2023-12-20-daily-notes/ Green tea. Deciding is work. /posts/2023-12-19-daily-notes/ Tue, 19 Dec 2023 21:07:32 -0800 /posts/2023-12-19-daily-notes/ Better Wayland taskbar icons in GNOME. Assigning MIME types to xdg-open. /posts/2023-12-18-daily-notes/ Mon, 18 Dec 2023 07:22:26 -0800 /posts/2023-12-18-daily-notes/ Inhibitor Phase. The macOS kill ring. The Mac Studio. StarCraft on Linux via Steam. /posts/2023-12-16-daily-notes/ Sat, 16 Dec 2023 14:42:04 -0800 /posts/2023-12-16-daily-notes/ A soft KVM switcher for Dell monitors and Linux. Photo housekeeping. /posts/2023-12-13-daily-notes/ Wed, 13 Dec 2023 14:06:30 -0800 /posts/2023-12-13-daily-notes/ It’s the year of Linux on my desktop. Simple GNOME window tiling. Racism word play is unhelpful and confusing. New-to-me Alastair Reynolds novel. How’s the job going? /posts/2023-12-12-daily-notes/ Tue, 12 Dec 2023 12:55:14 -0800 /posts/2023-12-12-daily-notes/ Okay, fine, Fedora. Getting AirPlay 2 with shairport-sync. Fixing Flatpak Zoom fonts. LocalSend for x-platform AirDropesque sharing. /posts/2023-12-11-daily-notes/ Mon, 11 Dec 2023 11:24:37 -0800 /posts/2023-12-11-daily-notes/ 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. /posts/2023-12-10-daily-notes/ Sun, 10 Dec 2023 20:35:56 -0800 /posts/2023-12-10-daily-notes/ MCU: The reign of Marvel Studios. Doing nothing. /posts/2023-12-09-daily-notes/ Sat, 09 Dec 2023 11:04:21 -0800 /posts/2023-12-09-daily-notes/ The continuous glucose monitor. /posts/2023-12-08-daily-notes/ Fri, 08 Dec 2023 21:55:23 -0800 /posts/2023-12-08-daily-notes/ Tomb Raider. Steam Deck OLED. /posts/2023-07-18-daily-notes/ Tue, 18 Jul 2023 22:10:57 -0700 /posts/2023-07-18-daily-notes/ Apple Notes and a legal pad. /posts/2023-07-17-daily-notes/ Mon, 17 Jul 2023 18:54:06 -0700 /posts/2023-07-17-daily-notes/ A few notes on conflict. The INT650. /posts/2023-07-14-daily-notes/ Fri, 14 Jul 2023 11:55:24 -0700 /posts/2023-07-14-daily-notes/ I forgot that micro.blog is pretty nice. Firing the marketing team. The Playdate came. M1 love. /posts/2023-07-13-daily-notes/ Thu, 13 Jul 2023 07:20:30 -0700 /posts/2023-07-13-daily-notes/ The nonprofit and outrage clown industrial complexes. reddit and lemmy. Our atavistic fear of tankies. The taxonomical and emotional valence of the daily post. /posts/2023-07-11-daily-notes/ Tue, 11 Jul 2023 06:01:33 -0700 /posts/2023-07-11-daily-notes/ Garmin GPS stuff, trying Wikiloc, calming down about notes, settling in at work. /posts/2023-07-10-daily-notes/ Mon, 10 Jul 2023 11:55:10 -0700 /posts/2023-07-10-daily-notes/ Something lost along the way. /posts/2023-07-01-daily-notes/ Sat, 01 Jul 2023 08:24:29 -0700 /posts/2023-07-01-daily-notes/ Swapping Zoom for Golden Ratio (Emacs window resizing). Life after reddit. First poke at Lemmy. Himalayan Day. Thorns game. /posts/2023-06-30-daily-notes/ Fri, 30 Jun 2023 10:37:54 -0700 /posts/2023-06-30-daily-notes/ Google Reader. Aliens at the Hollywood. Pickelball noise. Apollo. /posts/2023-06-29-daily-notes/ Thu, 29 Jun 2023 08:59:25 -0700 /posts/2023-06-29-daily-notes/ RE Himalayan stuff. The hideousness of motorcycle marketing. Obsidian daily page automation with Shortcuts. Camera bags. Automation for slowness. /posts/2023-06-28-daily-notes/ Wed, 28 Jun 2023 07:55:41 -0700 /posts/2023-06-28-daily-notes/ Ugh, Apple News. Ugly, functional shoes. Selling the Himalayan. Band of Brothers. /posts/2023-06-27-daily-notes/ Tue, 27 Jun 2023 07:16:03 -0700 /posts/2023-06-27-daily-notes/ Making Denote more legible in Obsidian. Ethical Uber reviews. The strangeness of being new somewhere. /posts/2023-06-26-daily-notes/ Mon, 26 Jun 2023 10:34:50 -0700 /posts/2023-06-26-daily-notes/ We are all beta testers now. Obsidian sync and its discontents. Living in the remote future. Travel. The NYT gums reddit. Yeah, I guess the NYT is irritating me badly today. /posts/2023-04-08-daily-notes-for-2023-04-08/ Sat, 08 Apr 2023 10:26:49 -0700 /posts/2023-04-08-daily-notes-for-2023-04-08/ As always, a plaintext revival means a mutt revival. /posts/2023-04-03-daily-notes-for-2023-04-03/ Mon, 03 Apr 2023 11:00:40 -0700 /posts/2023-04-03-daily-notes-for-2023-04-03/ Vimari, my Emacs origin story, a 24-year-old free sample chapter, and my Jurassic Park moment with a pizza box. John Wick 4, Diego Sanchez has lessons. /posts/2023-03-31-daily-notes-for-2023-03-31/ Fri, 31 Mar 2023 07:01:43 -0700 /posts/2023-03-31-daily-notes-for-2023-03-31/ Journaling with org-roam, exploring Zettelkasten to inform writing, spring camping shakedown. /posts/2023-03-29-daily-notes-for-2023-03-29/ Wed, 29 Mar 2023 11:42:01 -0700 /posts/2023-03-29-daily-notes-for-2023-03-29/ Trying org-journal, Good Sudoku, blog content migration tools. /posts/2023-03-24-daily-notes-for-2023-03-24/ Fri, 24 Mar 2023 10:04:10 -0700 /posts/2023-03-24-daily-notes-for-2023-03-24/ More on learning with Vim Adventures, TickTick is out, time to pack it in on micro.blog. /posts/2023-03-22-daily-notes-for-2023-03-22/ Wed, 22 Mar 2023 10:42:33 -0700 /posts/2023-03-22-daily-notes-for-2023-03-22/ Succumbing to org-roam, the pleasures of a straight razor competently wielded, Decline of Western Civilization. /posts/2023-03-21-daily-notes-for-2023-03-21/ Tue, 21 Mar 2023 11:03:54 -0700 /posts/2023-03-21-daily-notes-for-2023-03-21/ Back to org-mode, a decent C25K Apple Watch app, custom Hugo RSS. /posts/2023-03-20-daily-notes-for-2023-03-20/ Mon, 20 Mar 2023 09:33:02 -0700 /posts/2023-03-20-daily-notes-for-2023-03-20/ Doom Emacs, Mackup for config backups, Rocky IV, Jedi: Fallen Order. /posts/2023-03-10-daily-notes-for-2023-03-10/ Fri, 10 Mar 2023 09:22:34 -0800 /posts/2023-03-10-daily-notes-for-2023-03-10/ Reading and watching Sharp Objects, Panic’s Nova, lens corrections defended, forced institutionalization, NPR. /posts/2023-03-09-daily-notes-for-2023-03-09/ Thu, 09 Mar 2023 22:11:33 -0800 /posts/2023-03-09-daily-notes-for-2023-03-09/ Interviews & job search stuff, Jedi: Fallen Order and Pokemon Sword, weblog.lol writing about Git. /posts/2023-03-06-daily-notes-for-2023-03-06/ Mon, 06 Mar 2023 09:31:57 -0800 /posts/2023-03-06-daily-notes-for-2023-03-06/ New theme, old posts, new photo management tool. /posts/2023-03-02-daily-notes-for-2023-03-02/ Thu, 02 Mar 2023 09:27:24 -0800 /posts/2023-03-02-daily-notes-for-2023-03-02/ Tech industry resentment, language wars & PMC piety, how I write these, CSS of Theseus, Playdate cometh-ish, CNET and the PE people. /posts/2023-03-01-daily-notes-for-2023-03-01/ Wed, 01 Mar 2023 09:25:39 -0800 /posts/2023-03-01-daily-notes-for-2023-03-01/ TickTick & Drafts, the tech sin-eater, I casual, new printer day, job hunt news /posts/2023-02-28-daily-notes-for-2023-02-28/ Tue, 28 Feb 2023 21:23:55 -0800 /posts/2023-02-28-daily-notes-for-2023-02-28/ Declining games journalism, inclusive Git docs, Sublime as your git editor, electricity, TickTick progress. /posts/2023-02-27-daily-notes-for-2023-02-27/ Mon, 27 Feb 2023 10:52:37 -0800 /posts/2023-02-27-daily-notes-for-2023-02-27/ TickTick and productivity, the hilarity of Doom, an electrical failure, Tailscale, design fiddling