I have an irrational urge to get a 19-inch CRT and a VCR.

I spent several hours changing emacs to startup as a daemon. It turned out to be frustrating, over-complicated, and I didn't really gain anything. I then spent more hours changing things back to how they were before I started. So, that was fun.

I'm fascinated withl Anddo. "A very simple todo package for Emacs"

I love the first day of a new month. I get to print new calendars, review photos from last month, create a new monthly spread in my notebook, etc. It always feels like an opportunity. I usually squander it, but still.

This might be my favorite part about using fountain pens.

Inks:

iroshizuku shin-kai in the Lamy 2000. It's a beautiful blue.

Noodler's Bernanke Blue in the Pilot Custom 823. The Pilot has a juicy nib so, being left-handed, I need a quick drying ink.

I chose Pika Backup for backups on Linux because it's very basic and simple to use, which is at least as important as features. Anyway, I somehow stepped on May's org-journal file and was able to browse the backups and quickly restore an earlier version. So, Pika Backup passed it's first real test for me. Nice.

I love science and space flight as much as the next boomer, but my attitude has changed over the past decade. Now, when some billionaire's rocket "experiences an anomaly", I cheer a little.

Pretending to use the Crown Graphic while taking a self-portrait using the Linhof Master Technika.

I'm kind of exhausted by everything online right now. Seeing that I have nearly 1,000 entries in 1Password was depressing. Everything wants an update or an upgrade or something from me that I don't want to give or receive. I just want to have a few nice, useful things and use them without interruption or ongoing costs.

Ben Thompson, Stratechery:

I think digital ads, particularly Meta-style ads that introduce you to things you never knew you wanted, a societal good.

Thompson's and my worldviews continue to diverge.

Ran across this one from 2023. I used the 4x5 Crown Graphic and a single strobe. Makes me want to shoot more large format. It's always fun and I like the look of it.

I cleaned and sanded the entire deck yesterday and now my back and knees are yelling at me. Today might be a do-nothing kind of day.

Finally emptied the storage unit. It's not a good idea for me to have too many places to store stuff.

Testing the interesting new macOS photo app, Iris Photos. The idea is sound. Surfacing things from a deep photo library is helpful. I pointed it at my 2026 photos folder and it pulled everything nicely. Then, I got cocky and pointed it at everything. Crashed after about 15 minutes. One thing holding me back (even if it didn't crash and wasn't macOS-only) is the ability to edit metadata. A photo viewer is where I frequently spot things I want to include in the metadata. Iris doesn't touch the photos, so this isn't possible. Still, it's a nice-looking app that's worth keeping an eye on.

Found Negative #017. 1910s

What if I didn't even have a computer? Wouldn't that be something?

"What is the point of this?" is a question I've been asking myself, lately. Sometimes when I'm writing a note. Sometimes when I'm posting to my blog. Sometimes when I'm testing some new software or workflow. Sometimes when I'm just gazing off into space. I usually don't have a good answer.

I made it 30 minutes. Good cast, but the movie adds nothing and was almost aggressively unfunny.

Great cast. Not great writing. Started off strong but petered out for me. Too many plot holes. Geena Davis is attractive and all, but that was quite an age gap. I don't understand the entire sequence with the peach.

I've been having so much fun playing with software that I've accidentally over-complicated everything. Again. Time to dial it back. Again.

I'm re-staining the deck and it's not going smoothly. I thought it would be a simple scrape/clean/stain. I scraped, and I cleaned, and I cleaned again. Still, some of the old stain flakes off. I'm going to strip the whole thing down to lumber and start over. I don't love that.

Joan Westenberg

Do my choices have to be black and white?

You can spend all your time scrutinizing every decision, slicing your options thinner and thinner until there's nothing left. You can reject every imperfect tool and flawed platform and compromise until you die a slow death of inconvenience, isolation, and frustration.

And when that happens, the easiest thing to do is give up entirely

Repost, but I was reminded of it yet again today.

tw93/Mole

🐹 Deep clean and optimize your Mac.

It's like a CLI version of CleanMyMac

(h/t Issue #216 — The Hulry Newsletter)

The Virtual OS Museum

Want to see the earliest resident monitors? The ancestor of all modern OSes (CTSS)? The earliest versions of Unix? The first OS with a desktop metaphor GUI (Xerox Star Pilot/ViewPoint)? Early versions of mainstream OSes? If you want to explore historical OSes and platforms without having to worry about configuring/installing emulators and OSes or corrupting emulated installations, you’ve come to the right place.

Amazed that this exists. I'm not an OS nerd, but maybe I will be after downloading this.

The Emacsification of Software — Quarrelsome

If you look at /r/emacs, it’s 0% Product Hunt, 100% show-and-tell.