My entire process feels overwrought. I don't need half of this stuff.

Ignoring Tinderbox because it's weird and expensive is a costly mistake, in my opinion. It makes Obsidian look like a kid's toy. Gives Emacs a run for its money. Developed continuously for 20 years. Deep, powerful, flexible, stable.

I've exhausted my supply of internet today, so it's time to make our annual Thanksgiving Pizzas.

I'm having so much fun with software right now, I can hardly stand it. Emacs and Tinderbox and Aspect and TheBrain and Evernote and Curio, and and and. It's all great stuff. I'll complain about not being able choose things tomorrow, maybe, but right now it's a blast.

I keep futzing with Ghost on baty.net because I can't seem to get completely comfortable using Ghost. Yesterday, I changed themes again. This time, to Kyoto. It's a bit less in-your-face than Journal was. I've tweaked colors and layout and moved things around a little. I'm not sure I love it. See what I mean? I just don't want to change platforms again.

I love writing in paper notebooks, but at some point there's always a lull. When that happens, there's nothing to click on.

I get such a kick out of these movies. It's like after the first film someone took a bong hit and said, "Hey guys, want to do it again!?" So they did.

RackNerd had good VPS pricing for Black Friday ($18.00/year for 2.5GB) so I ordered one. Then, while I was sudo this and ssh that, I remembered that I don't enjoy this stuff as much as I used to, so I stopped. I'll finish it later.

If you post "Notes" on Substack, I'll never see them.

macosxguru mentioned the golden-ratio emacs package, and it sounded useful, so I tried it. I didn't like it. My brain doesn't jibe with windows moving around on their own accord, I guess. But what was worse was that somehow, my Org files were being overwritten by the capture dispatch buffer. I lost my critical Daybook.org and Todo.org files and had to restore from backups. I've no idea how that could have been happening, but it started as soon as I installed golden-ratio and stopped when I deleted it. No thanks :).

Banalities intentionally made difficult by shooting them on film.

Dante Stella

I think about this sentence a lot.

I would like to read more articles in which the authors stop doing so much throat clearing or sidetracking so that we all know that they know about something tangental and maybe they don't approve of it.

In yet another example of worrying about something that hasn't happened...

I've been switching between Capture One and the Adobe apps for photo management for years. That's normal, but one of the reasons I've been twitchy about Lightroom Classic is that "what if...?" feeling. What if they stop supporting Classic and force everyone to the new Lightroom? I've been dealing with feelings about this since...2017. I should stop doing that.

As long as moving Mastodon instances doesn't bring my posts along, I'm thinking Bluesky is a safer long-term bet for my posts. I hate that I actually typed that and don't think it's crazy. I also hate that almost no one cares about federation or the risks involved with putting our trust in bluesky. Hell, I'm thinking about doing it, and I understand the problems. I, like most people, sometimes just want a place to hang out with everyone and have some fun. Right now Bluesky is more fun.

Not to sound like a curmudgeon, but when I was a teenager, I took the train to go to the record store to find rare stuff. Spotify is way more convenient, but that wasn’t the point. The point was to get out and to feel like you’re hunting, to feel like you’re living your life. I’m going to the movies, I’m going to this show. What streaming has done — it’s very convenient, but it’s taken the feeling of going hunting and turned it into we’re all just being fed. We’re all farm animals that are just being fed, and we’re being fed content. You can just stay home. Just stay home. We’ll just feed it to you. No wonder everyone’s depressed.

Don Hertzfeldt

This movie always makes me happy. It's basically perfect.

Johnny Martyr, who's blog I enjoy, writes:

So when I look at the Tesla Cybertruck, in all it’s bulletproof, four wheel steering, environmental art and (intended) function-over-form middle-fingering to tailgating traitors of democracy, I can’t help but forget all the noise surrounding it, and just smile.

This is like the Cybertruck of blog posts: 90% wrong, ill-considered, and probably should be recalled.

I'm kidding! (but am I? Is he?)

The function-over-form argument only applies if the thing actually functions properly. Anyway, I got a kick out of it.

I'm seeing a lot of sync errors with my Tinderbox files and exports. I use Syncthing, and I am careful not to have the same document open on both machines, so I don't know what's causing it. Troublesome, though.

I've not been living in Emacs for a week or longer. Jumped in this morning to look for something. Then this...

load-with-code-conversion: Cannot open load file: No such file or directory, emacsql-sqlite

I'm sure this is a Doom thing, but still, this is probably why I went with Denote for so long. I've kind of lost interested in tracking down Emacs issues.

My God I'm weary of the hand-wringing and navel-gazing on Mastodon about other networks. I'm closing the tab for a while.

My new LifeBook Tinderbox document is coming along nicely. However, I am reconsidering the idea of combining that new document with this blog document. There's so much going on with this blog that migrating it to a new document will be fraught with errors and will likely take me too long to be worth the trouble. I may pick at merging them, but for now, they remain separate.

Tinderbox has an export code that renders links to any other notes that link to the current note. I've (conditionally) added the links to the bottom of every post. It got me thinking about differentiating internal from external links. I did that with a bit of CSS, so now internal links are black/grey (based on not visited/visited). It's not something that will be immediately obvious, but it's a nice touch once you notice it. Example.

I've switched the Search page to use Pagefind. It's ridiculously simple to get things working with Pagefind. No more generating a separate index.