Hi, I'm Jack. These are my daily notes about everything.
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If you’re reading this in a browser, you’ll have noticed that the site’s design has been simplified. My original design was based off some AI-rendered test blog I was playing with long ago. I’d changed it to be more tumblr-esque. While staring at the home page this morning, I noticed that it practically hurt my eyes looking at it. So busy! I dropped back to a variation on the original. It’s calmer now. I can add some flare back later if I get bored.
I fired up the wiki just a few days before reviving this blog, so I’m once again in that space where I don’t know where to post stuff. Add to that my continued battle with too many places to write things down and I get a little dizzy. Right now, though, Tinderbox is a big part of it.
Hey Claude, could you summarize the summary of the 3rd comment on the PR?
I love eggs, but they don’t agree with me, so I don’t keep them in the house. I’m trying to eat healthier food (and less of it), so breakfast is usually something like oatmeal or whole grain toast. Once in a while, I treat myself to a McDonald’s breakfast. I love a Sausage burrito!
Someone linked to this t-shirt and I couldn’t resist.
At some point I decided I wanted a keyboard with a “normal” layout, so I retired the wonderful HHKB. I don’t love the Lofree keyboard I replaced it with, so I started looking for something I liked better. Instead of a super fancy keyboard, I went with a reasonably-priced Keychron; the Keychron V1 Ultra 8k with brown switches. It arrives today. I’ll keep you posted.
I’ve been having so much fun with my Tinderbox Daybook that I thought I’d dust off this Tinderbox version of daily.baty.net. Now what? Speaking of the Daybook, I still use org-journal mostly because I like the PDF it can render. Claude just made my Tinderbox Daybook export look the same and I’m giddy.
One doesn’t have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient.
– Charles M Blow
Things are in flux around here. As usual.
A command line tool for keeping track of what you’re doing and tracking what you’ve done.
doing is pretty great. I’ve been using it for years and it just keeps getting better. Here’s the latest
No technology has ever been stopped
– unknown
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!”
Hunter S. Thompson
I am over all of it right now. Over what? Sync, config, emacs config, AI, software, charging, logins, all of it. I just want to do a few simple things and then do them some more, forever.
When I need to use a computer “in anger”, I choose macOS because everything I need or want is there and I’ve got years of muscle memory for doing things. I’ve had to use mine that way this week, so I’m feeling less twitchy about using macOS software to do it.
I told myself not to use any software that is macOS-only because I’m fickle and “What if?” If I keep that promise, it spells trouble for this version of daily.baty.net, since it’s run via Tinderbox. I’m not sure what I’m going to do about it.
It’s gotten to the point that visiting even my happy places online has turned into doom scrolling.
Yesterday was a complete waste of time. It was entirely my fault. Maybe today I’ll feel like doing something useful.
When not at my desk, I prefer using the Framework laptop running Fedora/Gnome to the M4 MacBook Air running Tahoe. I might prefer Linux on my desktop, too, if I could have all of my important software. I’m writing this using Tinderbox because I like Tinderbox. It’s the only way I can post to this blog. Blogging with Tinderbox means blogging with macOS. When I’m away from my desk, I type stuff in Emacs and copy/paste it to Tinderbox when I’m back on the Mac. Not ideal, but neither is not using Tinderbox :).
I’ve got to get away from this computer for a minute. Either that, or everyone needs to just be quiet for a while.
I see we’re still comparing the use of LLMs to the NFT hype. Hang on to that if you must, but…category error.
At the rate I’m taking photos, I’m going to have to stop calling photography a hobby. It’s more of an aspiration at this point.
I love a good manifesto, but Attensity! “A Manifesto of the Attention Liberation Movement” doesn’t really say anything. It reads like a bunch of lines prompted with, “Hey, give me something that sounds important and vaguely political about attention.” There’s nothing there. Clever website, though.
I think I’m through the worst of this cold, thankfully. There are no plans, today, which is great because I don’t feel much like doing anything. It works out. It was rather warm during our walk this morning. The rain had also stopped. Good walk.
I’ve been watching the new season of Monarch on Apple TV. It’s fine, I gues, but I’ve noticed that I tend to fast forward through the giant fight scenes. The monsters look awesome, but they are entirely CGI so of course they do. Also, they’re CGI so I kind of don’t care. In contrast, I’m very much enjoying the verbal sparring between Young Sherlock and Moriarty in that new series. Way more interesting.