By-host configs in Doom. Custom starting window sizes.
Removed a little conditional logic from config.org
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The notes bakeoff
The agonized ego is a ring of defense around nothing. And should not interfere with note tool selection.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Daily notes for 2023-07-01
Swapping Zoom for Golden Ratio (Emacs window resizing). Life after reddit. First poke at Lemmy. Himalayan Day. Thorns game.
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Daily Notes for 2023-06-22
Alright, sweethearts, you heard the man and you know the drill: Assholes and elbows!
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Templating Denote-style naming in Obsidian
Still on the how-to-make-Denote-more-mobile kick from another direction.
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Daily Notes for 2023-06-15
Excruciating Multiplicity of Approaches to Cat-Skinning. I slay me. Denote-org-to-Denote-Markdown. Golden Ratio window management.
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Daily Notes for 2023-06-13
Figuring out connection points between Denote and non-Emacs apps like Things with custom links and elbow grease. Automating org dblock rendering. Making org-export output more amenable to SimpleCSS. Text expansion with espanso.
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Daily Notes for 2023-06-12
A Drafts action to make Denote notes on the go. Fright Night 2011. Leica Q3, Fujifilm X100/X-Pro. Old man coos at clouds.
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Daily Notes for 2023-06-11
First week at my new job. How I made a searchable web interface for my Denote notes with FuseJS, a Synology, and TailScale.
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Daily Notes for 2023-06-04
Denote and encrypted notes plus the whole mobile angle. Hugo preview server and ox-hugo. What happened to V.
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Leuven is more pleasant than I thought it would be.
I don't want to be soothed any longer.
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Daily Notes for 2023-05-29
More writing about a camera I both covet and find unfathomable. All in on Denote. Keycast for influencing and debugging. Succession ended with integrity.
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Daily Notes for 2023-05-25
The Leica Q3 and some absurd back-of-napkin X100v comparisons, Denote silos.
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Daily Notes for 2023-05-24
Cleaning up results in literate config files. Portland and the JOHS. Some Doom discontent.
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More plaintext primitivism with Denote
Denote wants you to stick with the native tools you already have for a stripped-down PKM system.
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Daily Notes for 2023-05-12
Automation vs. Augmentation, ChatGPT and ideology, day one of the Things/org experiment.
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Daily Notes for 2023-05-10
org-babelified API noodling with verb, org-sticky-header, Amazon's Citadel
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Daily Notes for 2023-05-08
More on org-reveal - general goodness, custom CSS. Zoom and Mac display mirroring, scrum and kanban.
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Daily Notes for 2023-05-06
If you're going to work on a deck on a Saturday, at least play with org; making catppuccin work with Doom's helm; @[email protected] reminds us longboarding season is here.
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Daily Notes for 2023-05-03
A Ruby/CLI-based plaintext PRM, Robert DeNiro on exporting org-mode to JSON, blogging with ox-hugo, that Royal Enfield Himalayan
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Daily Notes for 2023-05-02
A Mackup/Dropbox glitch, integrating org-contacts and Things, conversations not interviews.
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Finding an org-contact record's emails in MailMate and events in Google Calendar
Looking up email histories and past Google Calendar events from org-contacts, and a few ideas about how to schedule time with people.
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Exporting a DayOne commonplace book to org-roam
A very cheap and cheerful DayOne-to-org-roam exporter and a link to a useful org-roam search function.
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plasticity and org-roam
The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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Daily Notes for 2023-04-28
Fixing mixed-pitch in Doom, Carlson's fake populism, ethics in affiliate linking.
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Daily Notes for 2023-04-25
Mail restlessness alights on MailMate, editing web forms in Emacs with Atomic Chrome, org-recur for simple and readable recurrence, GUI org-capture with Captee, more on my org PRM.
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Extending the plaintext CRM to mail contacts
Added a little automation to contacts.org with a function that auto-populates a message buffer in mu4e.
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Making a plaintext personal CRM with org-contacts
I don't like the looks of any of the personal CRM software out there, so I'm making a plaintext one.
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Daily Notes for 2023-04-12
More ChatGPT and org, using the org agenda, Yellowjackets again, Doom keybindings
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Writing elisp, Puppet code, and Ruby with ChatGPT.
I finally took the time to play with ChatGPT to configure Emacs and write some Ruby.
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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.
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Daily notes for 2023-03-29
Trying org-journal, Good Sudoku, blog content migration tools.
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Daily notes for 2023-03-24
More on learning with Vim Adventures, TickTick is out, time to pack it in on micro.blog.
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Daily notes for 2023-03-22
Succumbing to org-roam, the pleasures of a straight razor competently wielded, Decline of Western Civilization.
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Daily notes for 2023-03-21
Back to org-mode, a decent C25K Apple Watch app, custom Hugo RSS.
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Daily notes for 2023-03-20
Doom Emacs, Mackup for config backups, Rocky IV, Jedi: Fallen Order.
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