Monday, December 27, 2021
At times, I feel embarrassed about sitting here and writing for so long every day. There are so many other, more "productive" things I could (should?) be doing. But I love doing this. I love writing and sharing the things I'm thinking about. I love sitting in front of this beautiful monitor with this amazing keyboard attached to the best computer I've ever owned, and just typing.
I want only one blog. How the hell will I ever make that happen? Tinderbox is awesome but blogging with it requires a lot of setup and probably long-term fiddling. WordPress can do anything but feels clumsy. Ghost is slick and fast but feels focused on "building an audience" and doesn't have comments or stats. Hugo is cool and fast and I get to use Emacs, but it's also very separate from the actual rendered content. TiddlyWiki isn't for blogging, even though it can be coerced into it. I'll never be able to choose just one option and stick with it for more than, say 72 hours. For example right now I have 3 of my sites loaded in tabs and am weighing pros and cons of each and determining if any of them could be The One. I hate this.
...1 hour later...
I think I'll focus on copingmechanism.com for now. I'm also considering either copying these daily notes into a daily post on copingmechanism.com, or not publishing to the daily blog at all. I'll just use Tinderbox for writing and organizing, then use WordPress for publishing. I do like the daily.baty.net blog output, though. But do I want to keep working at it so hard?
It snowed overnight, so I finally got to use my new snowblower. Worked like butter. Clearing the driveway is now basically just walking back and forth for a few minutes.
I continue to feel that perhaps the Leica M10-R is not the right camera for the way I take photos. This disturbs me a little, because I want it to be The One.
I've boxed up the camera and plan to list it on fredmiranda.com later today. Let's see if I chicken out again.
Update: It's for sale: https://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/1734952/0?nc=1#15809485
I didn't think I'd want to install DEVONthink on my new Mac. I've been all "but files and folders can do everything!" I was wrong. DTP makes collecting, storing, organizing, and analyzing files and text so easy that I feel like I still need it. Maybe not "need", but definitely want.
This sure is a comfy way to write.