New (2014) Mac Mini. Another of my tech heroes turns out to be an over-privileged racist dick.

Mark Bernstein on defects vs surprises. Software decisions. Sharpening my knives.

Meta NDAs. DFW on Tourism. Complexity.

Why I don’t quit Emacs. A new (2014) Mac Mini

The Fediverse. Wasting my final years. Generational generalizations

Click tracking is costing you money. DHH 🙄. Note taking struggles continue.

What’s up with RudimentaryLathe?

Wasting time in Emacs. Essential Knowledge book bundle.

I have been wondering if the benefits of using ox-hugo just so I can write posts using Org-mode format is worth the extra layer of abstraction. I prefer Org-mode to Markdown, but Markdown is fine. In fact, Markdown-mode makes editing Markdown in Emacs quite pleasant. Ox-hugo is a great package, but increasingly seemed like a clever but unnecessary abstraction. One of its best features is that it makes creating new posts super easy. I never liked using the Hugo CLI, so ox-hugo solved that problem. ...

Edward Snowden quote. Ox-hugo. Featured images and the Congo theme.

I don’t have anything to say here today. Here’s a photo of the likely cause: Some days a notebook and a pencil is all I want

A new Hugo theme

Emacs from scratch continues

I spent Fathers’ Day with my dad and my daughter, so that was pretty perfect.

Emacs from scratch. A roll through the Hasselblad

I’ve succumbed to the temptation to try building my Emacs config from scratch. We’ve been here before.

Where should I write it down?

Bringing back the Rudimentary Lathe blog. MWeb Editor. Continued Emacs waffling.

I need to re-calibrate. Is Emacs a waste of time? Complexity.

Blot outage nudges me back to Hugo. Mike Hall’s Denote setup. OK Young’n.