Analog 3 min read Free

Pilot Custom 823 fountain pen

It’s been a while since I bought a new fountain pen. This is about the Pilot Custom 823. Literally every review I’ve read says the same things: “It’s not a looker, but what a great writer!” I can only resist that kind of consensus for so long,
Emacs 1 min read Free

Running Doom and Nano emacs at the same time using Chemacs

Most of the time I use a Doom Emacs configuration, but sometimes I feel like testing something new. I’ve been enamored by Nano Emacs lately, but there’s no way I’ll switch to it permanently. Today I learned about Chemacs. Chemacs 2 is an Emacs profile switcher, it
Dev 1 min read Free

Local theme development when using Hugo modules

Recent versions of Hugo prefer the use of Go Modules for managing themes. This is new and a little weird to me, but I’m slowly beginning to understand it. I’m documenting the process here so I don’t forget. I’ve forked an original theme (Even) for use
Emacs 1 min read Free

I almost forgot how much fun ox-hugo is

ox-hugo is “an Org exporter backend that exports Org to Hugo-compatible Markdown (Blackfriday) and also generates the front-matter (in TOML or YAML format).” It’s more fun than it sounds. I’ve used ox-hugo before, but I end up either drifting away from Org mode and/or Hugo and forget
Notetaking 4 min read Free

Writing everything in TiddlyWiki

I take all my notes in TiddlyWiki now, and publish most of them to rudimentarylathe.wiki. For the past few years, I’ve published my wiki using TiddlyWiki. I write daily, publicly sharable notes there. Private stuff goes elsewhere…or did, until yesterday. It’s the “elsewhere” part that drove
Media 1 min read Free

3 Stars by Default

Here's how I rate books and movies.
Notetaking 1 min read Free

My new note-taking system: Don't take notes

It feels like the entire world (or at least my corner of) is consumed by the “how” of note-taking. Tools, workflows, processes, backlinks, and on and on. Obsidian? Roam? Paper? I read it all. It’s fun and interesting and there’s no end of things to distract myself with.
1 min read Free

No one to replace the fish

There’s a scene in Lexicon by Max Barry in which Emily is sitting in a waiting room watching a single fish swimming in the upper half of a tank shaped like a large hourglass. The water drips slowly into the bottom half. Emily assumes that the whole mechanism will
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