Daily notes from Jack about everything

02 March 2026 (Monday)

Where's the exit?

Do you know what I like? Tinderbox, that's what. This blog, though, is due for some care. Guess I'm on macOS today, then.

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Dailies

I can't imagine having a blog without daily notes. (Like this one). I've tried all sorts of ways of doing them. My favorites were Fargo (when it existed), TiddlyWiki (before I took it down), and now, Tinderbox. I like the one daily note container, with multiple individual notes within it..each with its own URL. It doesn't hurt that the blog generated using Tinderbox is fully static. Anyway, you may have noticed this site is back to being generated using Tinderbox.


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My views have never totally aligned with Ben Thompson's, and his latest Stratechery piece reinforced that. Gruber asks:

Who sets our defense policies? Our democratically elected leaders, or the CEOs of corporate defense contractors?

Normally, I'd acknowledge that it should of course be the former, but lately, not so much. Is there a third option? I hate that I think like this, now. Thompson's hypothetical is dumb, anyway.