I've been sort of half-assing my Linux backups for a while now. I finally decided to fix them. My backups were a combination of rsync to a Hetzner Storage Box and Pika backups to an external drive. Each setup did different things, and there was no documentation. Testing the backups was a random and incomplete process that was too much work so I never did it. Rsync is easy and fast, but using the…
Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on Earth which can make them come back again -- Henri Cartier-Bresson ✍️ Reply by email
"I'll be curled up under my bed all day because I got an unexpected and (IMHO) unnecessary Emergency Alert on my phone that one time." 🙄 510 Pyro: The Best First Developer - by Derrick Buckner One dilution, one bottle. No drama. I’m going to explain why this belongs in a beginner’s arsenal as much as it belongs in mine. I've always been leery of Pyro developers, but based on this article, I've…
My ~/org/notes folder had nearly 4,000 files in it this morning. It now has 170. I deleted the rest. Having lost my religion around "zettelkasten" and "second brains", my notes started to look a little silly. Hundreds of nearly empty files with carefully-curated front matter are not helpful, no matter how many links between them have been created. I mean, what use is a note for, say, "Docker",…
STATUS : Trying to simplify everything TODO : Review both Mac and Linux backups (Re) READING : "Devoted" by Dean Koontz WATCHING : Reacher Season 4 I'm about a third through "Devoted", by Dean Koontz and I've been enjoying it. I finally decided to add it to my Hardcover list . When I did, I saw that I'd already read the book in 2020 and gave it 3 stars. It's not uncommon for people to re-read…
I had to buy a new watch so that I would stop wanting more watches. I know it's counter-intuitive, but hear me out. I like watches. It started after I bought a nice Tag Heuer automatic to reward myself for some achievement (which I've forgotten). It's a nice watch. Expensive. It's fifteen years old and I've never wound it or replaced a battery. This was my window into automatic watches. Then came…
You’re Pointing Your Camera the Wrong Way (NYTimes): “There is no simple way to banish the ennui of our age, but maybe it would help if we stopped looking at our own faces and turned instead to documenting the vanishing natural world in all its manifestations.” – Margaret Renkl ✍️ Reply by email
I'm definitely going to try littleFedi | A small ActivityPub server written in Go , the minute it ships. (h/t Mark Hysted ) ✍️ Reply by email
I feel like relaxing on the couch all day with my laptop, Linux, and some music in the background. Maybe I'll take a break from this keyboard and go write on one of the typewriters for a while. That's been fun, too. Typing directly onto paper is cool, and something everyone should try, imo. Speaking of Linux, on my desktop I'm running Fedora w/KDE, but here on the laptop it's Fedora w/Dank Linux…
MarkText — The Markdown editor that gets out of your way is available for macOS, Windows, and Linux. I grabbed the Flatpak today and first impressions are good. Worth a look. (h/t Alex ) ✍️ Reply by email
I've gotta try pico.sh , don't I? I mean, I already deploy all my sites via rsync, so I'm mostly there, anyway. (h/t Sal ) ✍️ Reply by email
Yes, I know, "Substack is horrible..." etc., but I'll set that aside for a moment to point out that Photoni.st has created a collated list of more than 600 photographers on Substack . Lots of them I'd not seen before. ✍️ Reply by email
You may have noticed that I haven't been putting images atop these journal posts. There are a couple reasons for that. First, it's kind of a pain to find a photo I want to use and then add the date/weather overlay. It's not hard , it's just friction that I'm finding difficult to overcome. Second, they're mostly decorative, and I dislike using decorative images on posts. Sure, it is a way to share…
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STATUS : Back on Linux, today. TODO : Nothing planned. Isn't that wonderful?! READING : Still working through "Middlemarch", but I've slowed down WATCHING : "Gone" on BritBox As repetitive and unimpressive as this blog can get, it's still the one place I have consistently put things for nearly 26 years. When I ask myself, "When did THING happen?", I often find the answer here. Maybe that's enough…
I still think about this from Rakhim (2020): ✍️ Reply by email
I've stepped away from blogging and social media for nearly a week. RSS feeds have been my only consumption engine. I like it this way. Mastodon starts to feel repetitive after a while. My blogging has been repetitive for 20 years. It's a little depressing how little has changed. How little I've changed. I may decide to quit blogging altogether, but, repetitive or not, I feel invisible when I'm…
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Coffee (2008) I don't know what's worse: the whining about macOS from Mac users or the constant bickering between Linux users. Well, I've retired the saltwater tank. I just couldn't keep ahead of it. Bad algae, unwanted critters, water changes, chemicals, testing, etc. It got to the point where the effort I was putting in wasn't worth the pleasure I was getting out of it. It was a good four-year…
I wanted it to be better. It dragged a few chuckles out of me. I gave it an extra star because I love Mary Steenburgen. ✍️ Reply by email
Remember that time I had 3 dogs? MojoPad is kind of amazing. I've been following along for a while now and boy howdy the updates are coming fast and furious. Perhaps too fast. I mean, he's shipping major updates every few days. The app is certainly being vibe coded. In fact, I'm starting to notice that nearly everything about the project is LLM-generated. The release notes, obviously. The website…
My old darkroom What does one do when nearly every topic they've always found interesting now bores them to tears? I find myself skimming my RSS and Mastodon feeds and just shrugging everything off because I'm tired of it. Let's hope it's just a moody phase. It feels like a moody phase. ✍️ Reply by email