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I’ve noticed that I’ve started posting things with an eye toward getting more attention online, and I hate myself for it. Might be time to pull back for a bit.

Why can’t they make players with big, obvious, differentiated Play/Pause/Stop buttons. My CD and Blu-ray players require a magnifying glass and a flashlight to find the right buttons.

Here’s a stupid idea I’m thinking about trying. What if I were to write all my posts in Emacs and render them locally using Hugo. Then, copy and paste the rendered HTML into the Ghost editor for publishing? A bonus with that approach would be that when I inevitably end up back to using Hugo for the blog, all the content will already be there 😁.

I’ve been using my new MacBook Air for a few days. I just now did a search (using Google, by default) and noticed that I’d not yet installed the Kagi extension. If I didn’t notice, I must not have missed it, so I canceled my subscription.

Tim Bray’s post about Qobuz got me thinking. I have a lifetime subscription to Roon, and Roon integrates smoothly with Qobuz. The problem has been that I already subscribe to Apple Music, so Qobuz felt redundant. However, after recently freeing up $10/month by

I hate not knowing how many times I’ll need to press the button in order to turn a light off. Power on/off switches should be separate from brightness controls.

When including these “Notes” on my daily journal pages, I forgot to deal with cover images. This here is a test of this morning’s fix for that.

I’ve changed my Hugo template so that any “Notes” I create on the same day as a daily journal are included inline in the journal post. No titles, just text. They’re still on the /notes page, too, so I can see them all at once. I’m also still cross-posting them to Mastodon, for now.

I think about this a lot. Whenever I read it I usually make a few prints.

It happened again and it was so satisfying.

I want to just walk around the seaside village all day, making small watercolor paintings of things I observe. I would do that, but I rarely leave the house in my boring midwestern suburb and I can’t paint for shit.

It’s gotten out of hand.

I took a roll’s worth of frames today, but on four different film cameras, so I still don’t have anything new to process.

Kazuyuki Hiraoka, author of the Howm Emacs package: If you don’t organize notes, it’s wearisome to read them. If you try to organize notes, it’s wearisome to write them. got that right.

I know people throughout history have successfully used Rolleiflexes for all kinds of documentary photography and photojournalism, but have they ever tried following a toddler around?

I’ve not quite gotten the hang of the Rolleiflex, apparently. This is expired Kodak Portra 400 (Expired 2012).

Looks like I accidentally took a photo of a hole in the universe. (Either that, or there’s a problem with the film negative.)

I can’t explain why I like listening to my old cassettes so much. All I can say is that I’m having a blast. Now Playing: Rush, “Roll the Bones”

In 2010 I would walk around with the Hasselblad and a roll of Tri-X and take photos of just about anything. This is a spring from a train car. I like how it turned out.

I spent hours yesterday watching YouTube videos about photographers. Ernst Haas, Winogrand, Helen Levitt, Irving Penn, Tish Murtha, etc. I loved it, but so help me if I don’t get out and make some of my own pictures soon what am I even doing?