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I’m a bit behind on my web reading, but I still have a few (more) things to say about blogging and owning your own blog (or domain if you’re more of a techie and want to be technically correct). It’s based on what Kevin wrote about Substack & Blogging, which is based on Manu’s original piece...
on Tue, 2PM
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my Emacs projects file (which I call now.org) is becoming too big. The agenda is still snappy, and I can work with it, but it just looks like a pile of “stuff” that I need to do or did. I want to organize it better somehow… #emacs #orgmode
on Dec 15
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I just typed away in my journal for an hour: Region has 32 lines, 16 sentences, 1574 words, and 8124 characters Man, I have to use more periods. Too many run-on sentences. Not something I could do in my handwritten journal. It would take me a week, especially if I want to be able to actually...
on Dec 13
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Jeff Jarvis writes: UK considers doing the right thing regarding AI and the right to read and learn and, of course, American mass media’s lobbyists object. US media groups warn UK over AI content-scraping rules This article is a good example of why, while I understand the concerns and worries...
on Dec 13
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When I work, I have my Mac docked and connected to a monitor, keyboard, and mouse. I use my Sony headset in meetings for its built-in microphone and built-out ambulance sirens and other NYC distractions. My iPhone’s phone app is connected to my Mac for better texting in Messages and if I click...
on Dec 11
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Kagi search is very good, but some of its usefulness is not easily discoverable. The following are my notes on Kagi’s Bangs (and Snaps) after I dug in this morning for research. While Kagi has a YouTube channel, it’s mostly reserved for flashy marketing clips. They have a few old how to videos...
on Dec 11
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I looked at my menu items on my Mac and thought I’d write a post explaining what tools I use daily. Here they are, from right to left: Focus: “Focus” was introduced in macOS Monterey back in 2021. It basically restricts certain apps from sending notifications during certain times. These work...
on Dec 3
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Filtering org-agenda to *exclude* a category
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Back in July, I explained how I use Beorg to sync my calendars. To recap, Beorg continuously exports the iOS calendar into a read-only org file, which I then sync to my Mac’s desktop through iCloud. The calendar.org file shows on my Emacs agenda, where I can see both my Outlook (work-related)...
on Dec 3
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Pan's Labyrinth, 2006 - ★★★★½
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This is the third or the fourth time I watched this movie. It's the first masterpiece I've seen by him, but definitely not the last. A fairy tale fit for grownups, you want to find a happy ending here (well, kind of, depending on your angle); it's full of magic and symbolism. There's not much to...
on Dec 2
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greatly reduce video file sizes
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For my personal journal videos (which I call jvids for short), the quality is not important since it’s just me talking. I could just get rid of the video, but it doesn’t feel as “real.” A 10-minute HD video recording on an iPhone can take close to a gig. This method compresses the videos to...
on Nov 26
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Irreal commented on my recent posts about writing (analog vs digital). Irreal doesn’t understand why I’m hesitant: To be honest, I don’t understand his ambivalence about the matter. He lays out the case for both and shows that, except for a vague feeling of attraction to writing with pen and...
on Nov 20
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Over at KevLand, Kevin reported success fixing his Sony ear buds: “I’m thrilled with that! If I managed to get another 2.5 years out of these batteries, I’ll be absolutely chuffed. Fuck, if I get another year out of them, I’ll still be happy.” Meanwhile, Wired reports that The Right to Repair...
on Nov 19
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How much money is enough money? That’s what I was thinking about the other day. I watched Hank Green’s video (he talks about it for the first minute or so), which made me consider that, yes, at some point, I will probably have enough money. But what does it mean? Can I put a number on that? That...
on Nov 14
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New emacs org-mode category in place…! Actually, it was there for a while, but now it’s in the navigation bar, complete with my own AI illustration of what the Emacs GNU looks like. Check it out: taonaw.com/categorie…
on Nov 10
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The last time I scanned the news was in the AP app on my Android two days ago. I gave it about two seconds before I swiped it away and out of my mind. I’ve been doing this for the last week, and I’ve been feeling good. Then the guilt came in hitting me like a hammer a second later. Can I really...
on Nov 9
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Continuing my digital notes re-exploration, I expended my usage of Reminders on both my iPhone and Mac. I’ve used those before, but not to this extent: The notebook taught me to write anything that pops into my head down, and I can do it distraction-free with my Apple Watch using Siri. All I...
on Nov 7
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The news is in. Many of us want to stay in bed. Wake up. Stand up. Keep calm and move on. Team by team, reporters baffled, trumped, tethered, cropped Look at that low plane, fine, then Uh oh, overflow, population, common group But it’ll do, save yourself, serve yourself World serves its own...
on Nov 6
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Digital Notes vs. Analog notebook
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The other day, I needed to copy some notes from my pocket notebook to my project file in org-mode, which is synced to my iPhone with iCloud. I was on the subway on my way downtown with a friend. I played around with Beorg, which allows me to work with org-mode files on the go. Not only did I...
on Nov 3
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Last Saturday I had an encounter with dear ol' Aunt Dee. She’s like a lifelong buddy, never too far. Shy and quiet, she sneaks up on you undetected. You only realize she’s around after her long scrawny arms reach around you, hugging, her perfume brings back a daze of nostalgia. I was playing...
on Oct 31
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Back to digital journaling once more...
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For the last week or so I’ve been journaling on my computer again instead of in my notebook. This is a cycle for me I keep going through. The urge to write in a handwritten journal is there, and I love the feeling of sitting down at a desk with a good pen and paper pages. The problem I’m having...
on Oct 29
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About Dunbar and (not having) Relationship Circles
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I have an indirect problem with the Dunbar number and measuring relationships in circles. It’s not Dunbar; the limit is how many close (or best) friends I can have. That number (the Dunbar number) makes sense to me. It’s more that I don’t really have these circles people talk about. While I have...
on Oct 24
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I’m still figuring out how to use my notebook for different things. For now there are four main things: reminders, bigger tasks, points before a meeting and taking apart bigger ideas, or brainstorming. NK, on the other hand, has been using notebooks for years. Being the colorful person they are,...
on Oct 24
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Annie has been on and off on my Micro.blog feed for a while, and with her latest guide to RSS, it’s about time she stays put. Adding her to my recommended reading. Go read it, it’s funny and in your face at the same time, much like the woman herself. After reading it, I realized that my own RSS...
on Oct 22
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With Sinwar's death, time to move forward
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Sinwar is dead, and Israel’s Netanyahu is offering a “pardon” for Hammas terrorists if they release the hostages. This is good, and I’m glad to see this statement in English, but it’s not enough. Israel was never too good at explaining itself to the rest of the world, and the war in Gaza (and in...
on Oct 19
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In Washington, it seems there are parks around every corner. A park for a walk. A park for sitting on a bench and relaxing. A park for you and your dog - and then a dog park inside that park as well. There’s even a spot for gnomes. Fun times. 📷
on Oct 18
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Extra money for priority boarding. Buy lunch on the plane if you want more than crackers and juice. Pay up if you want space so your knees don’t touch the seats in front of you. Faster WiFi that allows you to work is premium. And ads. Ads everywhere. On the walls of the jetway, on the terminal...
on Oct 18
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We’re headed to Seattle tomorrow to meet friends. I’m excited to have a camera with me in a place I don’t know again, and I could use some time off. Today, I broke down and wrote in my Emacs journal instead of my written one for the first time in over a year. There was just too much to write,...
on Oct 17
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Emacs-plus PATH in macOS Sequoia
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Important: this is for emacs-plus for macOS via Homebrew. After the upgrade to macOS Sequoia, Emacs' Dired didn’t find gls, which made it impossible to navigate to folders and open files this way. When a program can’t find another program, it’s usually a sign something is wrong with the path...
on Oct 6
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Preparing a Time Machine backup before upgrading to macOS Sequoia. I’m not usually one to rush macOS updates, and I feel I’ll regret it. It’s mostly about “it’s going to happen in a couple of months anyway, might as well get used to it now” thinking. Well, as long as I have a backup, right?
on Oct 6
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I’ve been looking for signs of an alternative ending for Mad Max since last night when I finished it in vain. Maybe happy Hollywood ending spoiled me, I couldn’t just let it end like this. But maybe it’s supposed to end like this, as other pointed out in Reddit and elsewhere; maybe that’s the...
on Oct 6
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Little Nightmares (2017) - unrated
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For Halloween, I decided to get parts 1 and 2 and see if I could finish it this time. The game is beautifully animated and creepy. It does indeed feel like a kid’s nightmare.
on Oct 2
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Notebook vs Digital: 2024 version
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I wrote about writing thoughts down vs typing them before, and this morning, I did another round. There are quite a few things that repeat, but some are new. I forget who explained it and where, but when I looked into notebooks 📓 again, that person said that writing something down in a notebook...
on Oct 1
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I’ve had a nice lazy weekend. These days I can aim for rest, but getting it is a different thing. Between my brain having ideas and anxieties that wake me up in crazy hours in the morning and various urgent matters at work, something as simple as a 10-15 minute nap can become very...
on Sep 23
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The importance of saying your name correctly
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My name is easily mispronounced because of how it’s written. Many years ago while I was still in elementary school, my father traveled to the US and sent me a gift. He wrote it down phonetically, the way he thought it should be pronounced, and it stuck. For most of my life in the US, which is...
on Sep 18
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I’ve never been good at talking to strangers. As kids, our mom always trained us to stay away from strangers; my grandparents had the same mentality, more or less. These days, I feel there’s a certain deficit. On one end of the spectrum, there’s always been the issue of striking up a...
on Sep 16
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Sweaters are not what they're used to be
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Only three days ago, I linked to an article from Mark Dent, which puts our shortening toilet paper conspiracy theories to rest (spoiler: it’s not a conspiracy, and you’re not crazy, it’s for real). I contacted Dent with another conspiracy of my own about t-shirts: the t-shirts I bought over the...
on Sep 6
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YouTube removes a video explaining how to de-google
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About two months ago, I criticized Life Hacker’s article about de-googling. In a nutshell, the article is oversimplified and doesn’t go further beyond the same recycled bullet points of “use DuckDuckGo” and the like. LifeHacker is not alone in this. I once read a similar article from the NYT...
on Sep 5
From taonaw.com
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I’m enjoying my new “On This Day” page. As I mentioned before, I’m borrowing Jamie’s blog gardening idea and trying to enhance it. I want to import blog posts from my old blog into my new one. This is not so simple. It requires I “schedule” posts from the past, which is a crude workaround, as...
on Sep 4
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While it doesn’t come as a big surprise, this article supplies us with evidence and data that we’re not going crazy: our toilet paper is getting smaller: Why toilet paper keeps getting smaller and smaller thehustle.co Subscribe to The Hustle Daily Newsletter - The Hustle...
on Sep 3
From taonaw.com
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This is my first attempt at explaining a full (though simple) script I wrote. I always say I’m no programmer (or scripter). Despite that, I somehow ended up creating a couple of useful scripts on my Linux machine. My elementary scripts are work in progress. I keep tweaking them as I learn and...
on Sep 1
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Woke up a bit after five in the morning. Mind racing, thinking of unfinished tasks at work, trivial ones, but when you’re half asleep, you don’t have the sense to convince yourself of that until you’re more awake. Installed Micro.blog for macOS again. Discovered Grammarly stopped working outside...
on Aug 31
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Home gym: why non-adjustable single weight dumbbells are better for me
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I cursed and paused the app mid-set. It wasn’t the first time, second, or third (I stopped counting after that) that the steel from my weights bolt splintered into my fingertips, left unprotected with my gym gloves. It wasn’t the only thing I disliked about my traditional adjustable disk...
on Aug 30
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I can’t believe it’s already been two full weeks since I shifted into this new role at work, but here we are. I was called in by someone high up who knew me well from my previous position. He offered me a managerial role in my old department, where I cut my teeth being IT* While the title itself...
on Aug 26
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Google’s Gemini AI looks spectacular on the new Pixel 9s. MKBHD is impressed: And so is WSJ’s Joanna Stern (I’m starting to appreciate her “watchful mom” kind of attitude), though she’s a bit harder to convince. She sat down with Google’s Rick Osterloh, head of Android (and apparently Chrome...
on Aug 14
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You have a doomsday bunker. Now what?
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I got my driver’s license when I was 17 something. At the time, we lived in Denver, Colorado. Some of my memories back then include getting lost on different back roads, late at night (or early morning) to whatever place my belated teenager-rebellious mind decided: a nightclub, a promised...
on Aug 11
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On This day now on *this* blog
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I mentioned “Blog Gardening” in a long vent yesterday and also previously. The core of this idea requires that I have an “On This Day” page on my blog. The code instructions seemed simple enough, but I didn’t think it would be that simple. All I had to do was copy-paste. To test, I went back in...
on Aug 10
From taonaw.com
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I wanted to give Micro.blog’s audio capabilities another try. I got a few things I wanted to talk about and I just wanted to just go for it. I suggest you listen to this post rather than reading it, as it’s meant more of a vent, but I went through the transcript below and for the most part it’s...
on Aug 10
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LibreWolf through Homebrew fix for Mac
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I’ve discussed LibreWolf several times on this blog (and my old blog). The quick rundown goes like this: privacy on the internet is a routine, not a quest to be conquered, and LibreWolf is an important tool to have in your privacy kit. On the Mac, LibreWolf can be downloaded directly as an App...
on Aug 8